Manasi Subramaniam, Editor-in-Chief at Penguin Random House India, posted a line from the book in which Rushdie writes, “Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.” She added: “At long last. @SalmanRushdie’s The Satanic Verses is allowed to be sold in India after a 36-year ban.”

Delhi’s Bahrisons Booksellers are selling a ’limited stock’ of Salman Rushdie’s controversial novel ‘The Satanic Verses’. It will be available in Pune soon. However, the development has been criticised by some Muslim organisations.

The Satanic Verses' by Salman Rushdie makes a controversial comeback in India, reigniting debates about censorship, freedom of expression, and political accountability linked to Rajiv Gandhi's past actions.

Back in 1988, the content of Salman Rushdie's book 'The Satanic Verses' received major backlash as the members of the Muslim community raised objections, claiming that it was blasphemous and offensive to the Islamic faith.

The Satanic Verses, which was banned under the Rajiv Gandhi government, is available at Delhi's Bahrisons Booksellers.

Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses has arrived at a bookstore in India 37 years after it was published. An import ban by Rajiv Gandhi government kept it away from Rushdie's native country for almost four decades.

How do you explain the lack of street protests and the silence of political groups as one of the most controversial books published in independent India -Salman Rushdie’s 1988 novel 'The Satanic Verses' – returns to the country's bookshops after being banned for 36 years?

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,