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India drops 36-year ban on Rushdie book

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In 1988, India became the first country to impose a ban on Salman Rushdie's novel "The Satanic Verses" for importation. However, due to a lack of evidence and records of the original ban, the Delhi High Court has quashed the ban five years after a reader, Sandipan Khan, brought the case to light in 2019. This decision makes India's ban on "The Satanic Verses" the first of its kind to be overturned.

  1. IN
    Delhi High Court
    1. What emerges is that none of the respondents could produce the said notification dated 05.10.1988 with which the petitioner is purportedly aggrieved.
    2. We have no other option except to presume that no such notification exists, and therefore, we cannot examine the validity thereof.
  2. IN
    Uddyam Mukherjee
    1. It's a very strange thing for the state to lose it in a country where everything is in triplicate and quadruplicate. Maybe there was never a paper, and hence a ban, all these years?
  3. IN
    Chiki Sarkar
    Juggernaut Books
    1. As a publisher, I can say, whatever the reason, it's great news that the book can be made available.

sources

  1. 1.The Times
  2. 2.Al Jazeera
  3. 3.The New York Times
  4. 4.BBC
  5. 5.Times

perspectives

  1. 1.Freedom of Speech
  2. 2.Islam
  3. 3.Religious Freedom
  4. 4.Literature

countries

  1. 1.United KingdomGB
  2. 2.IndiaIN
  3. 3.Iran, Islamic Republic ofIR
  4. 4.ItalyIT
  5. 5.JapanJP
  6. 6.NorwayNO
  7. 7.United StatesUS

organizations

  1. 1.Delhi High CourtIN
  2. 2.15 Khordad Foundation
  3. 3.Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs
  4. 4.Hindus
  5. 5.Juggernaut Books
  6. 6.Royal Society of Literature

persons

  1. 1.Salman RushdieGB
  2. 2.Rajiv Gandhi
  3. 3.Sandipan Khan
  4. 4.Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini
  5. 5.Chiki SarkarIN
  6. 6.Pragati KB Pragati KB
  7. 7.Raju Ramachandran
  8. 8.Uddyam MukherjeeIN
  9. 9.Victoria Kim

technicals

  1. 1.Islam
  2. 2.Satanic Verses
  3. 3.Booker Prize
  4. 4.Quran
  5. 5.Midnight's Children
India drops 36-year ban on Rushdie book