Thirty-three years after the fatwa, the author of the Satanic Verses was grievously injured in an assassination attempt at a literary event in New York. The attack, by a 24-year-old man inspired by the forces unleashed by the late Ayatollah Khomeini, reminds the world how alive is the murderous fury of radical Islam against the freedom of ideas and imagination
More than sixty years after his death, Syama Prasad Mookerjee’s position on Kashmir has been vindicated and his critique of the Nehruvian order is redefining the idea of Indian nationhood
Sushil Kumar Kaul Arazbegi, retired corporate executive, Thane
The price we paid for the failure of the Cripps Mission eighty years ago
The new liberal voices that speak of a different freedom in Kashmir