DAWN
| 8 months ago
Lisa Scheer After marking Yaum-i-Ishq-i-Rasool by killing more than a dozen people, as expected, Pakistanis have officially celebrated the day with complete zeal and fervor. Much has been said and written about the day, however, how many people who...
DAWN
| 8 months ago
Oct 01, 2012- British author Salman Rushdie said Monday that if a fatwa calling for his murder over his book The Satanic Verses had been issued in the social networking era, it would have further endangered his life. The writer was in Berlin to...
The Hindu
| 8 months ago
Criticism has dogged some of the tactics the publishers of J.K. Rowling and Salman Rushdie have used to create unprecedented hype around their new books Last week, thousands of people queued up outside Apple stores across Britain to buy the latest...
The Independent
| 8 months ago
This is a story of the clash between the Enlightenment and religious fundamentalism, between friendship and fearfulness, between West and East. In 1989, Salman Rushdie followed his Booker-winning classic Midnight's Children with The Satanic Verses, a...
Daily News & Analysis
| 8 months ago
It's one of the best memoirs you'll ever read, says Aditya Sinha. If the fatwa to kill Salman Rushdie for his novel The Satanic Verses , a book his condemners never read, had succeeded then the world would not have known Joseph Anton, Because there...
Daily News & Analysis
| 8 months ago
Salman Rushdie Published 24 years ago, The Satanic Verses had, among other things, a writer called Salman who was forced into hiding because he fiddled around with holy text. Deepanjana Pal remembers the novel that started the whole mess There are...
War In Context
| 8 months ago
The extraordinary violence unleashed across the Muslim world by Innocence of Muslims , an obscure US-made video, has left many bewildered and perplexed. Rushdie was, of course, at the centre of the most famous confrontation over the depiction of the...
