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Why Rushdie’s ‘The Satanic Verses’ Remains So Controversial Decades After Publication
The novel goes to the heart of Muslim religious beliefs and challenges some of its most sensitive tenets.
Salman Rushdie and the Story of India
‘Midnight’s Children,’ a chronicle of a stabbing foretold.
Freedom, the Shackled Architecture of Life
'The refurbished facade of freedom by periodic celebrations / sentinels the little nascent life / from the darkness...'
How Salman Rushdie Has Been a Scapegoat for Complex Historical Differences
Rushdie, great writer and outspoken defender of writers’ freedom of expression, has been under a fatwa for more than 30 years. He’s set to recover from a shock stabbing …
Hearing My Grandmother’s Stories of Partition Gave Me a New Lease on Life
A Gen-Z writer narrates how he grew up listening to stories of Partition from his grandparents about the chaos of the border crossing from a newly-minted Pakistan and the …
‘The Majnu Ka Tilla Diaries’ Reveals Tibetan Empowerment in India
Photographer Serena Chopra's black and white images of the Tibetan colony in Delhi are an intimate and empathetic peek into the refugees' struggle for identity.
India Has Come a Long Way Since 1947, But Much Still Needs to Be Done
The need of the hour is to reorient policies built on equity, not only economic, political and social, but also ecological and environmental.
Laal Singh Chaddha: A ‘Phipty-Phipty’ Approach to Crucial – and Controversial – Points in History
Aamir Khan sometimes falls into his familiar clichés, but when he gets to the grip of the character, he shines.
Setback for Lakhs From Punjab, Haryana as Canadian Student Visa Refusal Rises Sharply
Visas of even those students who have good IELTS scores, academic record and financial background were also getting refused, according to consultants.