The Return of a Book

The Satanic Verses Unbanned

A Delhi High Court order leads to Salman Rushdie's novel coming on a bookseller’s shelves after 36 years

Editor’s Note

India's story is too big to be left to rejectionists or cheerleaders

Public Square

Salman Rushdie | Venki Ramakrishnan | Shaktikanta Das | S Somanath | Sudhanshu Mani | Pratap Bhanu Mehta | Ram Madhav | Swapan Dasgupta | William Dalrymple & Anita Anand | Mukesh Ambani | Gautam Adani | N Chandrasekaran | Satya Nadella | Adar Poonawalla | Gita Gopinath | Kangana Ranaut | Vikram Sampath | Tridip Suhrud | Bindu Reddy | Karthik Muralidharan | Sunita Williams | Ashok Elluswamy | Abha Narain Lambah | Joyeeta Gupta | Arghya Sengupta

The Wounded Happiness of Salman Rushdie

What it takes to be a writer in the time of hate. Rushdie returns to that August morning in 2022 when he almost died under the knife of a man inspired by the late Ayatollah Khomeini’s death decree against the author

Forecast 2024: Life and Past Times

Memoirs, histories and investigations that see anew

Editor’s Note

Salman Rushdie Comes Home

Words sustain life in his new novel set in India. It’s a fairy tale of the present accentuated by history and mythology, written by a storyteller schooled in the epic Fabulism of the East

Steeped In the Fabulous

An epic time-travelling novel by Salman Rushdie and other mysteries

Persian Discontent

Salman Rushdie’s prophecy and the second Iranian revolution