The Indian government was unable to locate a 1988 notification banning the import of Salman Rushdie's 'The Satanic Verses'. The Delhi High ...

India lifted a long-standing restriction on Salman Rushdie's controversial novel, "The Satanic Verses," which was originally banned in 1988...

The Delhi High Court closed proceedings on a petition challenging the 1988 ban on Salman Rushdie's novel 'The Satanic Verses'. The court sa...

It is the failure to build democracy and secularism so conceived, in the decades after India's independence, that explains caste atrocities...

With focus back on Rushdie's book in the wake of the attack on him in New York, Singh, who was the minister of state for external affairs w...

Natwar Singh worked as minister of state for external affairs under Rajiv Gandhi when the Satanic Verses was banned in 1989.

Describing Chidambaram' remark as his personal view, senior Congress leader Kamal Nath today said, "No question of a single person puncturi...

Taslima Nasreen today advised West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to "learn" from Congress leader P Chidambaram and admit it was "wr...

Rushdie's remarks was prompted by Chidambaram's admission that the Rajiv Gandhi government's decision to ban the controversial novel was a ...

"One of the four authors, Jeet Thayil, who read a passage from 'Satanic Verses' last year, is also scheduled to participate this year also ...

Salman Rushdie is a "poor" and "sub-standard writer" who would have remained largely unknown but for his controversial book 'Satanic Verses...

Festival producer Sanjoy Roy said police permission was awaited for the 'video session' that was scheduled at 3:45pm on Tuesday.

That a book banned 33 years ago and its author can still stoke controversy and leave the organisers of a literary festival with their knick...

Salman Rushdie's absence from the Jaipur Literature Festival and the parallel and related Congress courtship of the Muslim vote in Uttar Pr...

Two prominent authors today read out portions from Salman Rushdie's banned "Satanic Verses" at the Jaipur Literature Festival as a mark of ...

The "secular parties" on Tuesday were falling over each other to coddle the fatwa-issuing clerics and support their latest directive.

Criticising a ban imposed on his book by Gujarat government, expelled BJP leader Jaswant Singh on Thursday said it amounted to "banning thi...