Salman Rushdie's attacker gets 25-year jail term

Hadi Matar, the 27-year-old man convicted of the brutal 2022 stabbing of acclaimed author Salman Rushdie, was sentenced on Friday to 25 years in prison. IMAGE: Booker Prize-winning author Salman......

McEwan helped Rushdie defy death fatwa

Booker Prize-winning British author Ian McEwan, a close friend of Salman Rushdie, had offered the latter a place to hide when a death decree was issued against the controversial Indian-origin......

'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......

Authors who read from Satanic Verses leave Jaipur

Salman Rushdie may have skipped the ongoing Jaipur Literature Festival, but his controversial novel The Satanic Verses continues to create a buzz at the event. At the session on 'The Literature......

'You Can't Understand Human Beings...'

'...without looking into yourself.''What matters most is human relationships and the human mind.' IMAGE: Roshan Mathew and Darshana Rajendran in Paradise. A film-maker, who chooses to make a......

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 --......

Iranians dance in streets as soccer team qualifies for 2018 World Cup

IMAGE: Players of Iran celebrate after the match during FIFA 2018 World Cup Qualifier match between against Uzbekistan. Photograph: Amin M. Jamali/Getty Images Tehran's streets were filled......

Eight players of Iran's women's football team are 'MEN'!!!

Iranian women's national football team walk to the pitch. Photograph: Ali Jarekji /Reuters Eight players of Iran’s women’s national football team are apparently men. Iranian women's......