Tag: The Satanic Verses
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Salman Rushdie to Testify in Trial of Attacker Hadi Matar
In August 2022, the literary world was shaken when Salman Rushdie, the renowned author of The Satanic Verses, was brutally attacked on stage in western New York. Just moments before he was set to deliver a lecture, a man charged toward him and stabbed him multiple times, leaving him permanently injured. Now, Rushdie is set…
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Rushdie’s Satanic Verses is Back on Indian Bookshelves
For the first time in 36 years, Salman Rushdie’s controversial novel The Satanic Verses has been made available for purchase in India. The historic move comes after a Delhi High Court decision questioned the validity of the ban initially imposed in 1988. The Delhi High Court’s ruling highlighted procedural lapses in the original government ban,…
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