The 54-year-old Indian actor underwent surgery after suffering six stab wounds when an intruder entered his home in the early ...

Now, Sir Elton John has committed his own act of lèse-majesté. The singer, 77, who is a close friend of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, has publicly boasted that he is a bigger draw than the King and ...

NEW DELHI: British-Indian novelist Salman Rushdie's controversial novel ‘The Satanic Verses’ has quietly reappeared in India, 36 years after it was banned by the Rajiv Gandhi government under pressure ...

CUSIII, the import of The Satanic Verses, a novel by the author Salman Rushdie, was banned[1]. To give a brief background, ...

From Jimmy Carter to Hillary Clinton to Barack Obama to John Kerry, politicians have led the abandonment of free speech.

Christian, Jewish and Muslim religious leaders in France see no doctrinal opposition to caricatures of God and religion in ...

NEW DELHI – Salman Rushdie’s controversial 1988 novel The Satanic Verses has made its way back to Indian bookshops, decades after being banned for sparking riots and outrage over its alleged ...

IMSD does draw the line between Free Speech, which it fully supports, and Hate Speech, which it staunchly opposes. While, the Constitution of India guarantees the right to freedom of speech, the law ...

For more than three decades, Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses remained absent from the bookshelves in India where the author was born. This week, that silence was broken. The novel, long shrouded ...

A fatwa, firman or call to kill Salman Rushdie, as also the demand for a ban on Satanic Verses amounts to just that: Silencing the offender,” the statement added.

Opposing the Muslim organizations calling for reban of Salman Rushdie’s “The Satanic Verses”, the Indian Muslims for Secular Democracy (IMSD) on Monday urged the Muslims to remember iconic social ...

The Nehru dynasty was famous for scuttling Freedom of Expression—be it in the literary sense, historical sense or economic ...