Soon after the ban on Salman Rushdie's 'The Satanic Verses' was lifted after 36 years, the mercurial excitement of readers dr ...

After the Indian Muslims for Secular Democracy, which includes academicians, lawyers, writers, and corporate leaders, urged ...

A fatwa, firman or call to kill Salman Rushdie, as also the demand for a ban on Satanic Verses amounts to just that: Silencing the offender,” the statement added.

The sudden hype about the ‘un’-ban of Salman Rushdie’s controversial magical realist The Satanic Verses, through a quirk of a legal loophole, takes me back to my college days in the mid-80s. As a ...

IMSD does draw the line between Free Speech, which it fully supports, and Hate Speech, which it staunchly opposes. While, the Constitution of India guarantees the right to freedom of speech, the law ...

For more than three decades, Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses remained absent from the bookshelves in India where the author was born. This week, that silence was broken. The novel, long shrouded ...

Christian, Jewish and Muslim religious leaders in France see no doctrinal opposition to caricatures of God and religion in public spaces, though political views vary globally and within religions.