Why Salman Rushdie’s ‘The Satanic Verses’ now available in India after 36-year ban | India News – Times of India
Salman Rushdie (File photo) NEW DELHI: Salman Rushdie‘s controversial book “The Satanic Verses“, which was banned by the Rajiv Gandhi government in 1988 following the uproar from fundamentalists, is now available in “limited stock” at a Delhi bookstore.The British-Indian novelist has faced a massive backlash for the book that is deemed blasphemous by Muslim organisations…