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'Thanks a lot': Rushdie on India's ban on Satanic Verses

Salman Rushdie's book The Satanic Verses was banned by India four months before Iran's Supreme leader late Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa for his killing without any proper examination or a......

Did not write Satanic Verses for the Mullahs: Rushdie

Over two decades after 'Satanic Verses' sparked a never-ending controversy and provoked a 'fatwa' for his head, author Salman Rushdie has only one thing to say to his detractors: 'I did not write......

Wonder how Satanic Verses got Booker prize: Katju

Attacking Salman Rushdie, Press Council of India Chairman Markandey Katju on Monday said that the "sensationalism" depicted by his book Satanic Verses has deeply hurt Muslim sensitivities and that......

I had to leave India to be safe: Amitava Kumar

Writer Amitava Kumar tells Aseem Chhabra about life after he read from The Satanic Verses at the Jaipur Literary Festival. Last week Amitava Kumar -- the New York -based writer and professor of......

'I don't need to READ The Satanic Verses to oppose it'

Mohammed Saleem Engineer is the national secretary of the Jamaat-e-Islami-e-Hind, the Islamic organisation that has its headquarters in New Delhi. The organisation is an offshoot of the......

Midnight's Children: Lost in translation?

It has happened so many times. A long-awaited movie adaptation of a beloved classic is finally made, and the cynics who thought the book was unfilmable are proved right. It happened a few years ago......

The new woman in Salman Rushdie's life

Every year -- while the rest of us are celebrating love -- Valentine's Day holds an awful significance for the Mumbai-born Sir Salman Rushdie. You see, the date was February 14, 1989 -- Valentine's......

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Q. What Attracts One to Hinduism?
Sudhakar Kuruvada: A. more

http://qna.rediff.com/questions-and-answers/what-attracts-one-to-hinduism/25425566/answers/

Q. Is Salman Rushie still being hunted and hounded ?
Ritu Arora: A. The concepts of utmost freedom of thoughts and actions. That's what attracts many to Hinduism. Hinduism never forbids any one to question its...... more

http://qna.rediff.com/questions-and-answers/is-salman-rushie-still-being-hunted-and-hounded-/25019496/answers/25425569

Q. O you who believe! Intoxicants and gambling . . . are an abomination, of Satans handiwork. Avoid such (abomination), so that you may prosper. Satans plan is only to excite enmity and hatred between you, with intoxicants and gambling, and hinder you from the rememberance of God and from prayer. Will you not then abstain? WHAT IS THE SOURCE ?
Truth Exposed: A. it has become a way of life for him since he wrote Satanic verses which made him flee the country. Now i think he has got quite used to it!! more

http://qna.rediff.com/questions-and-answers/o-you-who-believe-intoxicants-and-gambling-.-.-.-are-an-abom/24904616/answers/25019513

Q. though the Satan has knowledge and believes in Allah, Does he love Allah?
Truth Exposed: A. Allah Taala states in the Holy Quraan: - O You who believe! Intoxicants and gambling, (dedication of) stones and (divination by) arrows are an...... more

http://qna.rediff.com/questions-and-answers/though-the-satan-has-knowledge-and-believes-in-allah-does-he/24768061/answers/24904633

Q. WHY DOES Satan encourages people to drink alcohol and to gamble ?
Truth Exposed: A. Indication of loving Allah (SWT) is obeying His orders.As the Satan did not obey Allah, He does not love Him.As a matter of fact, in the Quran, the...... more

http://qna.rediff.com/questions-and-answers/why-does-satan-encourages-people-to-drink-alcohol-and-to-gam/24768034/answers/24768065

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Step across this line

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Echoes of dissent smothered or shackled

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Fatwa-free Salman Rushdie says 'Midnight' film closes circle after dark years

Three decades after "Midnight's Children" catapulted Salman Rushdie to literary glory, a film of the novel feels like "closing the circle" after... ...

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'Thanks a lot': Rushdie on India's ban on Satanic Verses

Did not write Satanic Verses for the Mullahs: Rushdie

Wonder how Satanic Verses got Booker prize: Katju

I had to leave India to be safe: Amitava Kumar

'I don't need to READ The Satanic Verses to oppose it'

Midnight's Children: Lost in translation?

The new woman in Salman Rushdie's life

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