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Columnists and book critics of the Asian Age and Deccan Chronicle give their verdict on the titles that left an impression or otherwise made an impact. Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr is a senior journalist and columnist SHREYA SEN-HANDLEY I put William Dalrymple’s The Golden Road on my Christmas wishlist this year, and sure enough, Santa delivered! Shreya Sen-Handley is an …

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Read what Salman Rushdie wrote in open letter condemning Rajiv Gandhi for banning The Satani Verses

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“Any book worth banning is a book worth reading” once said American author Isaac Asimov. In the year 1988, Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi-led Congress government banned “The Satanic Verses” by Salman Rushdie shortly after its publication because the perennially offended Muslims found the book’s portrayal of supposed Islamic themes ‘blasphemous’. When Rajiv Gandhi’s ‘secular’ government banned The Satanic Verses to …

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Muslim organizations oppose renewed sale of 'The Satanic Verses' in India

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British-Indian author Salman Rushdie is appearing in the news and making headlines once again as his highly controversial novel, The Satanic Verses, has returned to market shelves after an almost 36-year ban. सुनने में आ रहा है कि सलमान रश्दी कि विवादस्पद किताब “The Satanic verses“, जिसके विरोध में 1988 से 2022 तक दुनियाभर में कई जानलेवा हमले किये गए …

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The book review that Rushdie says lit the Satanic Verses fire

India Today

It was a book review that Salman Rushdie said "lit the fire" on The Satanic Verses. THE SATANIC VERSES AND A STRANGE COINCIDENCE It was Salman Rushdie himself who handed a proof copy of the book to Madhu Jain, then a journalist with India Today Magazine. THE REVIEW OF THE SATANIC VERSES IN INDIA TODAY MAGAZINE An excited Madhu Jain …

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Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses available in India

The Hindu

British-Indian novelist Salman Rushdie’s controversial book The Satanic Verses has quietly returned to India 36 years after it was banned by the Rajiv Gandhi government. It has also been at the centre of intense global controversy since its release, sparking debates on free expression, faith, & art," the bookseller said in a post on X. Manasi Subramaniam, Editor-in-Chief, Penguin Random …

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Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses hits Delhi bookstores after 36-year ban

India Today

British-Indian novelist Salman Rushdie's controversial book "The Satanic Verses" has quietly returned to India 36 years after it was banned by the Rajiv Gandhi government. In November, the Delhi High Court closed the proceedings on a petition challenging the Rajiv Gandhi government's ban on the import of the novel, saying since authorities have failed to produce the relevant notification, it …

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Indian government ban on Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses quashed by court

ABC

One of the most controversial books in the Muslim world can now be legally imported into India after its High Court ruled a three-decade ban on it technically does not exist. Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses was considered so blasphemous that it led to book burnings and violent demonstrations in a number of Muslim countries after its release in September 1988. …

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Notice banning import of "The Satanic Verses" doesn't exist, petitioner free to import it: Delhi HC

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An appeal against the alleged customs restriction in 1988 on the import of Indian-British writer Salman Rushdie’s “The Satanic Verses” was dismissed by the Delhi High Court on 5th November. The court highlighted, “In the light of the aforesaid circumstances, we have no other option except to presume that no such notification exists, and therefore, we cannot examine the validity …

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Satanic Verses: India forced to lift decades-long ban on Salman Rushdie’s book due to bizarre legal loophole

The Independent

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Delhi High Court Says Notification Banning Import Of Salman Rushdie's 'The Satanic Verses' Doesn't Exist As Authorities Fail To Trace It

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The Delhi High Court has disposed of a petition challenging the notification purportedly issued by the custom authorities in 1988 banning the import of book “The Satanic Verses” authored by Indian-British novelist Salman Rushdie.A division bench comprising Justice Rekha Palli and Justice Saurabh Banerjee noted that the authorities, including the Central Board of Indirect Taxes and. The Delhi High Court …

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Salman Rushdie endorses Kamala Harris: ‘Great to see Indian woman running for White House’

Hindustan Times

Mumbai-born author Salman Rushdie has endorsed Kamala Harris’s candidacy for the US presidency and said he believes she is the person who can prevent former president Donald Trump from dragging the country towards authoritarianism. Salman Rushdie on Sunday extended his support and endorsement of US Vice President Harris during a virtual ‘South Asian Men for Harris’ event attended by scores …

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5 months, 4 weeks ago

The India of Anita Desai’s dreams, and a new book, ‘Rosarita’, set in Mexico

The Hindu

Anita Desai has often experimented with language, theme and form in novels like Clear Light of Day, Fasting, Feasting, Baumgartner’s Bombay and The Artist of Disappearance. Edited excerpts: Anita Desai on her new book, ‘Rosarita’, set in Mexico What took you to Mexico to write ‘Rosarita’? She plants this seed of an idea in the narrator’s mind that there was …

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Alleged Rushdie attacker, awaiting trial in New York, could still face federal charges, lawyer says

Hindustan Times

MAYVILLE, N.Y. — The lawyer for the New Jersey man charged with stabbing author Salman Rushdie is in talks with county and federal prosecutors to try to resolve existing charges of attempted murder without a trial — as well as potential terrorism-related charges that could still be coming, he said Friday. Alleged Rushdie attacker, awaiting trial in New York, could …

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Alleged Rushdie attacker, awaiting trial in New York, could still face federal charges, lawyer says

Associated Press

MAYVILLE, N.Y. — The lawyer for the New Jersey man charged with stabbing author Salman Rushdie is in talks with county and federal prosecutors to try to resolve existing charges of attempted murder without a trial — as well as potential terrorism-related charges that could still be coming, he said Friday. Barone said Matar faces up to 25 years in …

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Alleged Rushdie attacker, awaiting trial in New York, could still face federal charges, lawyer says

The Independent

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1 year, 1 month ago

Salman Rushdie say attempts to censor Ian Fleming’s James Bond are ‘almost comical’

The Independent

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Salman Rushdie has made a rare public speech in which he …

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1 year, 8 months ago

Salman Rushdie "Greatest Living Indian Writer, Nobel Long Overdue" Says Shashi Tharoor

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MP and author Shashi Tharoor has called Salman Rushdie’s novel Victory City “magnificent and magical”. Tharoor called Rushdie the “greatest living Indian writer” who should have won the Nobel Prize for Literature by now. “I’ve just finished Salman Rushdie’s magnificent & magical “Victory City” — a fabulous recreation of the history of the Vijaynagar Empire through his magical-realist lens, brilliantly …

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1 year, 11 months ago

‘An idiot’: Salman Rushdie on the man who stabbed him in the face

The Independent

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Salman Rushdie has given his first in-depth interview since he was …

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Salman Rushdie releases new novel, six months after knife attack

Firstpost

Six months after being stabbed, British author Salman Rushdie on Tuesday publishes his new novel Victory City, an “epic tale” of a 14th-century woman who defies a patriarchal world to rule a city London: Six months after being stabbed, British author Salman Rushdie on Tuesday publishes his new novel Victory City, an “epic tale” of a 14th-century woman who defies …

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1 year, 11 months ago

Salman Rushdie’s Victory City is ‘a restoration of the powers of fiction in these censorious times’

The Hindu

Salman Rushdie’s novels have always felt to me like stepping into an Indian Mughal miniature painting where several things are happening at once. “For me the fantastic has been a way of adding dimensions to the real,” he writes, “adding fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh dimensions to the usual three; a way of enriching and intensifying our experience of the …

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2 years, 2 months ago

Iranian entity behind bounty on Salman Rushdie sanctioned by US

Firstpost

The US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control took action Friday against the 15 Khordad Foundation, an Iran-based foundation that has issued a multi-million-dollar bounty for the killing of prominent Indian-born, British-American author Salman Rushdie, the Department sa Washington: The United States on Friday sanctioned an Iranian entity that was behind issuing a bounty to target British-American …

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2 years, 4 months ago

The 40 best young Indian writers, new fiction by Janice Pariat, Anees Salim, and more | the hindu on books

The Hindu

Welcome to this edition of The Hindu on Books Newsletter. The crux of what Buford said was that a story needed to be “adventurous, original, and above all, have the narrative drive to keep the reader pinned to the page.” In his introduction to A Case of Indian Marvels, Davidar says the 40 short stories, written by the best of …

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An introduction to the works of Salman Rushdie

The Economist

A YATOLLAH RUHOLLAH KHOMEINI had probably never heard of Salman Rushdie when the bespectacled, slightly balding, Indian-born British author’s fourth novel, “The Satanic Verses”, came out in 1988. Yet within five months, Iran’s supreme leader had made the writer the world’s most famous literary apostate, describing the book as “blasphemous against Islam” and issuing a fatwa on national radio calling …

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Read what Salman Rushdie wrote in open letter condemning Rajiv Gandhi for banning The Satani Verses

Muslim organizations oppose renewed sale of 'The Satanic Verses' in India

The book review that Rushdie says lit the Satanic Verses fire

Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses available in India

Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses hits Delhi bookstores after 36-year ban

Indian government ban on Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses quashed by court

Notice banning import of "The Satanic Verses" doesn't exist, petitioner free to import it: Delhi HC

Satanic Verses: India forced to lift decades-long ban on Salman Rushdie’s book due to bizarre legal loophole

Delhi High Court Says Notification Banning Import Of Salman Rushdie's 'The Satanic Verses' Doesn't Exist As Authorities Fail To Trace It

Salman Rushdie endorses Kamala Harris: ‘Great to see Indian woman running for White House’

The India of Anita Desai’s dreams, and a new book, ‘Rosarita’, set in Mexico

Alleged Rushdie attacker, awaiting trial in New York, could still face federal charges, lawyer says

Alleged Rushdie attacker, awaiting trial in New York, could still face federal charges, lawyer says

Alleged Rushdie attacker, awaiting trial in New York, could still face federal charges, lawyer says

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Salman Rushdie say attempts to censor Ian Fleming’s James Bond are ‘almost comical’

Salman Rushdie "Greatest Living Indian Writer, Nobel Long Overdue" Says Shashi Tharoor

‘An idiot’: Salman Rushdie on the man who stabbed him in the face

Salman Rushdie releases new novel, six months after knife attack

Salman Rushdie’s Victory City is ‘a restoration of the powers of fiction in these censorious times’

Iranian entity behind bounty on Salman Rushdie sanctioned by US

The 40 best young Indian writers, new fiction by Janice Pariat, Anees Salim, and more | the hindu on books

An introduction to the works of Salman Rushdie