For universal human rights to prevail, religion has to be kept out of public life
Apart from Kangana, other Indian film celebrities too expressed their shock at the incident.
Quichotte is the 14th novel from prize-winning author Salman Rushdie.
What will be the effect of the violent attack on Salman Rushdie globally? How will writers mould themselves in the future? Will the percentage of self-censorship go up?
Umar Khalid has been arrested under the stringent Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act in a case related to the communal violence in northeast Delhi in February this year.
This year's list was chosen from 151 novels published in the UK or Ireland between October 1, 2018 and September 30, 2019, the five-member selection panel announced on Wednesday.
What makes Salman Rushdie one of the most important contemporary writers is his stating that the writer has a responsibility to tackle the larger issues of the day.
Salman Rushdie's life changed forever on February 14, 1989, when Iran's spiritual leader ordered Rushdie's execution after branding his novel 'The Satanic Verses' blasphemous.
The JLF has seen controversies take the dais often in the past—the biggest of them being the protest by Muslim groups against Salman Rushdie attending the...
??Rushdie is at his fantastical best but the message he conveys through this allegorical novel is way too relevant. ?
Alas, the "angul-moja" or the toe-sock, unlike the monkey cap, has never been deemed classy far less become a trendy winter statement by the Bengalis
'Those who have called for banning his entry must know that Rushdie being person of Indian origin does not need permission from the government – a visa –...
'PUCL strongly condemns Muslim organisations, the Congress and the BJP for opposing Salman Rushdie’s proposed visit to Jaipur'
The sequence of events legitimately strengthens the suspicion that the handling of the affair was vitiated by partisan opportunism
As writers organise for the ban on The Satanic Verses to be lifted, the battle to undo the damage of the past quarter century has begun. It is time for India...
We haven’t heard the last of L’Affaire Rushdie. It will keep haunting us for some time. Three issues could have unpleasant repercussions
'It is election time. Everyone knows the truth...the government knuckled under and enforced this disgrace because of power and politics and the misuse of...
It wasn't just about standing up for freedom of expression in India: maybe I was doing something more humble and honest. I was trying to restore a sense of...
'It is a matter of deep distress that a threat from Darul Uloom Deoband has forced Prabha Parmar , a research scholar at the Chaudhary Charan Singh University...
Ghosh’s and Rushdie’s novels don’t mention “globalization,” but the process is understood well
The failed attempt on the life of the Danish cartoonist, Kurt Westergaard, once again raises issues of intellectual dissent and the nature of blasphemy in...
Rushdie's critics lost the battle - The Satanic Verses continues to be published. But they won the war. The argument at the heart of the anti-Rushdie case -...
It's 20 years since the fatwa on Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses. We mark the occasion by republishing what Professor C.M. Naim present
'Arundhati Roy wrote: You have a very simple choice: Justice or civil war... I want to really take issue with this. I do not believe that the project of the...
