Rushdie’s controversial novel “The Satanic Verses” is now legal in India after being banned for three decades. In an unusual tale, the papers banning the import of the novel are missing. We take a ...

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but in the end it was a bureaucratic blunder that forced a high court in New Delhi to overturn a 36-year-old ban on the import of Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses. It happened simply because ...

The government of India cannot find 405/12/88-CUS-III — its 1988 order banning the import of Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses. Sandipan Khan of West Bengal tried to buy the book and ...

NEW DELHI -- The decadeslong ban of Salman Rushdie's "The Satanic Verses" in his native India is now in doubt -- not because of a change of heart more than two years after the author's near-fatal ...

405/12/88-CUS-III shook the world 36 years ago. For it banned the import of Salman Rushdie’s Satanic Verses. That was months before Ayatollah Khomeini’s fatwa (for blaspheming Prophet ...

Besides the ban in his native country, “The Satanic Verses” elicited a fatwa calling for Rushdie’s death from Iran’s Ayotollah Ruhollah Khomeini, forcing the author into hiding in 1989.

NEW DELHI (AP) — The decadeslong ban of Salman Rushdie’s “The Satanic Verses” in his native India is now in doubt — not because of a change of heart more than two years after the author’s near-fatal ...