NEW DELHI: Opposing the Muslim organizations calling for re-ban of Salman Rushdie’s “The Satanic Verses“, the Indian Muslims for Secular Democracy (IMSD) on Monday urged the Muslims to remember iconic social reformer Sir Syed Ahmad Khan’s teachings and to “fight words with words” instead of resorting to book bans or burnings. The renewed sale of … Read more
Lucknow: Some Muslim organisations have strongly condemned the renewed sale of Salman Rushdie’s controversial book “The Satanic Verses” in India and appealed to the central government to reinstate the ban on it. Rushdie’s book has returned to Indian bookshelves, 36 years after it was banned by the Rajiv Gandhi government in 1988. Currently, ‘The Satanic … Read more
New Delhi: 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. A “limited stock” of the book, which caused a furore against its author and content that was deemed blasphemous by Muslim organisations the world over, has been selling … Read more
