under Salman Rushdie

“Terms like ‘holy war’ should not be tossed around”

When Roy writes, ‘The youth, in preparation to an attack, marked each venue by reading from their prayer books in an act most of us are familiar with as a precursor to a holy war or fight’, he comes close to demonising a community.

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7 Feb 2012 | BY Hartosh Singh Bal
“Seniormost maulana threatened jihad at Jaipur”

Jaipur Literature Festival’s producer Sanjoy Roy takes exception to a piece Open ran

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7 Feb 2012 | BY Sanjoy K Roy
The Rushdie Affair and the Hand of the Congress

Cynical Congressmen and supine litfest organisers script a dangerous farce

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25 Jan 2012 | BY Hartosh Singh Bal
For a Moment of Statesmanship

With Rushdie, the government has again chosen the cowardice of practicality over the courage of morality

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19 Jan 2012 | BY Manu Joseph
A Rushdie Sequel?

Salman Rushdie is reportedly writing a sequel to Haroun and the Sea of Stories, a children’s book he wrote in 1990

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12 Nov 2009 | BY Elizabeth Kuruvilla
Oh, for a Book to Ban!

‘Satanic Verses’ was banned 20 years ago. In all the navel-gazing contemporary Indian fiction, where’s the book that has the power to offend?

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12 Sep 2009 | BY Hartosh Singh Bal
‘Yes, I Don’t Like Pakistan’

Rushdie on Pakistan, and why his lawyer told him proving Indira Gandhi was not of good character was the only way to save his skin

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15 Jun 2009 | BY Salman Rushdie
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