The Satanic Verses

The Return of a Book

Makarand R Paranjape

Is there a risk of The Satanic Verses being banned again?

The Satanic Verses Unbanned

Madhavankutty Pillai

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

Who Wants Salman Rushdie Killed?

S Prasannarajan

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