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Saeed Naqvi | The Satanic' furies: A look at the genesis

Rushdie and The Satanic Verses will encroach on the world's attention now and then indefinitely for political football

28 Aug 2022 12:15 AM IST

AA Edit | We need zero tolerance for insult to any religion

No one must stop condemning people who are openly calling for violence, demanding that the culprit be beheaded

25 Aug 2022 12:08 AM IST

PM Narendra Modi gestures as he addresses the nation from the ramparts of the Red Fort on the occasion of the 76th Independence Day, in New Delhi on Aug 15, 2022. (Photo: PTI)

Shobhaa De | Theatre of the Absurd: At 75, promising miracles

In India, we have countless award-winning thespians, not all of them professional actors. Some of our Nautanki Netas can...

20 Aug 2022 12:05 AM IST

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Farrukh Dhondy | The targeting of Salman Rushdie: Shadow of the 1989...

The 24-year-old Lebanese Muslim, Hadi Matar, has been charged with the attempted murder of Salman Rushdie

20 Aug 2022 12:00 AM IST

Rishi Sunak & Liz Truss

Kishwar Desai | Only William-Kate smelling like roses; The Rishi and...

Rishi Sunak finds himself in an unfamiliar rank of being second, while Liz Truss is slowly moving up

15 Aug 2022 12:14 AM IST

Author Salman Rushdie is tended to after he was attacked during a lecture. (Photo: AP)

Attack on Salman Rushdie is 'appalling', says White House NSA Jake...

Rushdie, who faced Islamist death threats after writing The Satanic Verses , was stabbed by a New Jersey resident...

13 Aug 2022 6:59 PM IST

n this still image from video, author Salman Rushdie is taken on a stretcher to a helicopter for transport to a hospital after he was attacked during a lecture at the Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua, N.Y., Friday, Aug. 12, 2022. (AP)

Rushdie's attacker showed sympathy to causes of Iran's Revolutionary...

The New York State Police identified the suspect as Hadi Matar from Fairview, New Jersey while the motive behind the act...

13 Aug 2022 11:49 AM IST

Salman Rushdie (AP file photo)

Salman Rushdie on ventilator, likely to lose an eye, liver stabbed and...

According to Rushdie's agent, Andrew Wylie, the Mumbai-born controversial author was on a ventilator and could not speak

13 Aug 2022 8:17 AM IST

The author was attacked as he was about to give a lecture in western New York.

Salman Rushdie stabbed on stage in New York state

A reporter witnessed a man storm the stage at the Chautauqua Institution and begin punching or stabbing Rushdie as he...

12 Aug 2022 10:15 PM IST

Cover photo of Victory City by Salman Rushdie. (Photo by arrangement)

Book Review | Allegory for a civilisation in crisis an ode to undying...

Despite its serious subtexts, however, Victory City is, first and foremost, a joyous outpouring of the author's bravura...

26 Feb 2023 1:37 AM IST

PEN literary service award recipient Stephen King attends the 2018 PEN Literary Gala at the American Museum of Natural History. (Photo: AP)

Author Stephen King honoured at 2018 PEN America gala

Morgan Freeman, who starred in the film adaptation of King's "Shawshank Redemption," presented the author his award for...

23 May 2018 3:59 PM IST

As India celebrates its 72 Independence Day, we look at a few books that have documented Indias struggle for freedom and have left a mark in our conscience.

Independence Day 2018: 5 books one must read on India's freedom...

From non-fictional accounts to works of fiction we list five must reads that deal with India's struggle for freedom.

15 Aug 2018 9:40 AM IST