The ban on ‘The Satanic Verses’ should be lifted now – Reshmi Dasgupta

India should lift that proscription on The Satanic Verses now. In fact, India should have done so in the same month Rushdie was attacked. It would have been—rightly—seen as a definitive turning away from yet another egregious, and as-yet-unrescinded Congress-era appeasement move. – Reshmi Dasgupta Sir Salman Rushdie—now, presumably, plain Citizen Rushdie of the US […]