Former Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa against Salman Rushdie in 1989 over his novel The Satanic Verses. An Iranian organisation also put a bounty on his head, raising it to $2.5 million in 1997 and...
Before Salman Rushdie’s 'The Satanic Verses', a 1932 Urdu anthology 'Angarey' had instigated similar angst in India, making the uproar over later banned books pale in comparison considering this was an age innocent of...
Bihar Museum’s exhibition, Women and Deities, is a timely feminist intervention to ways of seeing the Hindu religion at a time when India is sinking in revanchism
For universal human rights to prevail, religion has to be kept out of public life
The self-censorship and silence over the attack on Salman Rushdie for The Satanic Verses in Bangladeshi media and society is telling
How the author morphed into a purveyor of socio-political conflict and a catalyst for Muslim radicalisation
Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan also said the names of these people would be revealed to the nation of something happens to him.
Why Salman Rushdie deserves to be tried for his book 'The Satanic Verses', rather than us lamenting over his freedom of speech
A mature civilisation must ensure that writers are not prosecuted or hounded for their words
Feeling offended? Look away. Don’t push your beliefs on the rest of us. In this digital age, truth will out anyway.
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...
The idea that Allah and Prophet Muhammad’s honour needs to be upheld at any cost has firmly made a home in the Muslim mindset
Pakistan: Ashok Kumar was arrested after the extremist group Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) on Sunday staged protests in front of a building housing Hindu...
Salman Rushdie's attacker has been indicted with a count of second-degree attempted murder and a count of second degree assault, as per a report.
Sir Syed Ahmed Khan in an editorial made it clear that the abomination of blasphemy must not be allowed to unleash mindless violence and that it cannot be...
Salman Rushdie's attacker's social media show he is sympathetic to Shia extremism and Iran. In 1989, Iran's Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued an edict calling...
Salman Rushdie was both idolised and demonised for a singular trait that defined his life and works — championing free speech.
Salman Rushdie’s literature and life address one of the most important questions of the modern world: How free should a speech be? Some critics continue to...
Salman Rushdie is not the only author whose book has attracted blatant detestation. There are umpteen number of instances when books have been banned as they...
Salman Rushdie lives in the pith of readers and book lovers because of his satire, moody oeuvre and unique phrasing. Kathryn Hume argues that one of Rushdie's...
The City of Lakes is bristling with anger. Communal faultlines buried deep in the past have cracked open in Udaipur after the killing of Kanhaiya Lal.
Can free speech have any redline? Are taunts at the Prophet of Islam deliberately aimed to provoke reaction? These are vexing questions the world has been...
The BJP on Friday demanded that the Tamil Nadu police immediately take action against a YouTube channel and arrest those related to it for allegedly posting...
Destitute family of Lakhbir Singh, lynched for blasphemy in October last year, pin hope on the new Punjab government.
After the Pakistani Defense Minister Pervez Khattak said that murders take place when young people get emotional, the Sri Lankan minister said that this remark...
