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
The author recalls his meeting with the celebrated and charming author over a decade ago, his wit, scholarship and tremendous willpower
The attack on him is a reminder that the pursuit of truth is always pitted against the bloody profanities of faith
The evidence of radicalisation behind the Gorakhnath temple attack poses a new security challenge for the Adityanath government
Has the progressive consensus on victimhood become an apologia for the theocratic struggle of Hamas?