When Rushdie called Rajiv a philistine, an opportunist

Salman Rushdie may or may not get to talk to the audience assembled at the Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF) through a video link today (24 January), but a 1988 open letter he wrote to Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi over the ban on The Satanic Verses in that year can be accessed even today (See here). Much water has flown down the Ganga since then, but what he said then holds good even today. Only, we seem to have even regressed further into anarchy from that day.

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