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

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It should serve as a warning against cheap shortcuts to power

The Taiwan crisis could not have come at a worse time for Xi Jinping

The fight against corruption in its manifold forms will have to go on for much longer

His journey as an investor mirrored India’s economic growth after liberalisation

A companionship startup and what it says about the future of human beings

Hindutva and Swaraj IX

Honouring the winners and the losers

Uncovering the Uyghur genocide