Rushdie’s fresh sigh

More than 23 years ago, months before Khomeini’s scorched-earth fatwa positioned the debate on The Satanic Verses as a defence of Islam, Salman Rushdie penned an open letter to Rajiv Gandhi, then prime minister of India. The government had just banned the novel that October in 1988, and in the New York Times article Rushdie asked Gandhi: “What sort of India do you wish to govern? Is it to be an open or a repressive society?”.....

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