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 ...

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 ...

(AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File) 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 ...

(AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File) 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 ...

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 ...

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.