NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's three-decade ban on importing author Salman Rushdie's controversial 'The Satanic Verses' book has effectively been lifted after a court said the government was unable ...

India, where Rushdie was born, was the first country to ban the book, just nine days after its publication in September 1988. Then in February 1989, the Supreme Leader of Iran at the time ...

Author Salman Rushdie, who suffered years of Islamist death threats after writing The Satanic Verses, has been stabbed on stage in New York state. The Booker Prize winner, 75, was speaking at an ...

Salman Rushdie was born in Bombay, India. His father was a lawyer turned businessman, and his mother a teacher. He says they gave him his gift for storytelling. “Both my parents were good at it ...

Over a literary career spanning five decades, Sir Salman Rushdie has been no stranger to death threats arising due to the nature of his work. The novelist is one of the most celebrated and ...

Excerpts from the book along with an interview of Rushdie ran in an Indian magazine in September 1988, which led to Indian politicians Syed Shahabuddin and Khurshid Alam Khan demanding a ban.

NEW DELHI (AP) — The decadeslong ban of Salman Rushdie's “The Satanic Verses” in his native India is now in doubt — not ...

Is it legal to import Sir Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses in India? This question has been puzzling legal experts since the Delhi High Court suggested this week that the notification banning ...

British-US author Salman Rushdie poses for photographers as he arrives to address a press conference at The Frankfurt Book Fair in Frankfurt am Main, western Germany on October 20, 2023.( ...

NEW DELHI — The decadeslong ban of Salman Rushdie’s “The Satanic Verses” in his native India is now in doubt — not because of a change of heart more than two years after the author’s ...

When Salman Rushdie attended a literary event in upstate New York on the morning of 12 August 2022, it had been 33 years since the Ayatollah Khomeini’s fatwa for his novel "The Satanic Verses".

Mishra, Vijay 2024. The world novel: Salman Rushdie’s Quichotte Quichotte , by Salman Rushdie, London, Jonathan Cape, 2019, 393 pp., £20.00 (hardback), ISBN ...