Her new novella, “Rosarita,” takes place in Mexico, a country she finds so like her native India that, she says, “I feel ...
NEW DELHI – Salman Rushdie’s controversial 1988 novel The Satanic Verses has made its way back to Indian bookshops, decades after being banned for sparking riots and outrage over its alleged ...
CUSIII, the import of The Satanic Verses, a novel by the author Salman Rushdie, was banned[1]. To give a brief background, ...
There is a difference between religious persecution and religious criticism, writes Jemimah Steinfeld. To conflate the two is ...
The decision to ban the book 36 years ago by then-Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, perhaps without reading it, exemplifies the ...
The Royal Society of Literature’s leaders are set to step down following a civil war between writers over diversity and free ...
Soon after the ban on Salman Rushdie's 'The Satanic Verses' was lifted after 36 years, the mercurial excitement of readers dr ...
The RSL has been accused of censoring members, including Appignanesi, who is now a freedom of speech campaigner, and former president Dame Marina Warner in the wake of Salman Rushdie's near ...
The director and chair of the Royal Society of Literature (RSL) have both resigned. Director MOLLY ROSENBERG announced she ...