Author Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses could soon be available in India, 36 years after it was banned. File image/Reuters ...
The import ban on Salman Rushdie's controversial work, 'The Satanic Verses' has been lifted. File image The Delhi High Court ...
India's three-decade ban on importing author Salman Rushdie's controversial 'The Satanic Verses' book has effectively been ...
( MENAFN - Live Mint) Salman Rushdie's controversial 1988 novel The Satanic Verses could become available in India for the ...
Delhi high court on Thursday shut the proceedings on a petition challenging the Rajiv Gandhi government's decision to ...
India's three-decade ban on importing author Salman Rushdie's controversial 'The Satanic Verses' book has effectively been ...
Rushdie's novel was banned in the Asian country in 1988 due to controversy over its depiction of Islam and portrayal of ...
Rushdie, 77, lived in hiding for years after Iran's first supreme leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini ordered his killing for what he deemed the book's blasphemous nature.
Says that since authorities failed to produce the relevant notification, it has to be presumed that it does not exist.
The book was banned in 1988 by the Congress government claiming that it could give rise to law and order problems.
A fatwa (ruling) was issued against Rushdie and his publishers in February 1989 by the then Supreme Leader of Iran, Ayatollah ...