Salman Rushdie’s novel ‘The Satantic Verses’ hadn’t been sold in India, the country of the author’s birth, for 36 years, until this week. The novel, which forced the India-born author into hiding after its publication in 1988,

Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses is being sold again in his native India nearly four decades after it was banned, reports the Times of India. A court lifted the ban put in place in 1988 for an unusual reason,

Maulana Yasood Abbas of the All India Shia Personal Law Board (AISPLB) emphasised the importance of maintaining respect for Muslim sentiments.

Another controversy in tow? Salman Rushdie’s controversial novel The Satanic Verses has quietly made its return to India 36 years after it was banned by the Rajiv Gandhi government. A "limited stock" of the book,

Salman Rushdie's much-talked-about novel 'The Satanic Verses' has returned to Indian bookstores, with Bahrisons Booksellers in New Delhi now offering limited copies for sale. The book, which sparked global outrage due to its portrayal of Islam and its subsequent fatwa by Iran,