Far away, Iran's supreme leader issues a fatwa demanding the death of British author Salman Rushdie - and the effect on young Muslims in the UK is huge. Alyas Karmani was soaking up everything ...

NEW DELHI (AP) — The decadeslong ban of Salman Rushdie's “The Satanic Verses” in his native India is now in doubt — not because of a change of heart more than two years after the author ...

Salman Rushdie was born in Bombay, India. His father was a lawyer turned businessman, and his mother a teacher. He says they gave him his gift for storytelling. “Both my parents were good at it ...

Over a literary career spanning five decades, Sir Salman Rushdie has been no stranger to death threats arising due to the nature of his work. The novelist is one of the most celebrated and ...

Shortly after its release, the book faced significant backlash, culminating in Iranian leader Ruhollah Khomeini issuing a fatwa urging Muslims to kill Salman Rushdie and his publishers.

A court in India has overruled a decades-long import ban on author Salman Rushdie’s novel The Satanic Verses, because the government cannot find the original ruling. India was the first of ...