As Salman Rushdie’s stabbing trial in the US grabs international headlines, bookstores in the author’s native India are now selling “The Satanic Verses”, almost four decades after banning it. The ban was lifted not over freedom of speech concerns but due to bureaucratic ineptitude.

Source: https://www.france24.com/en/asia-pacific/20250212-rushdie-s-satanic-verses-hits-indian-bookshelves-after-bureaucratic-blunder