Tagore’s ‘Char Adhyay’, the love story of two revolutionaries, invited a fair bit of backlash in 1934 for its critique of ...
Existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre’s famous remark—avoiding politics doesn’t avoid the consequences of ...
The decadeslong ban of Salman Rushdie’s “The Satanic Verses” in his native India is now in doubt. That's not because of a ...
In 1988, India issued an order forbidding the import of Salman Rushdie’s novel. A Delhi Court has overturned the order, not ...
Rushdie, 77, lived in hiding for years after Iran's first supreme leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini ordered his killing for what he deemed the book's blasphemous nature.
Photo: Shen Hong/Xinhua via ZUMA Press/AFP via Getty Images That’s quite the change from eight years ago, when an Asian ...
As of then, Indian civilization’s antiquity had been traced up to the 3rd century BCE – in Mauryan Buddhist Emperor Asoka’s ...
While Pakistan has always been India’s greatest security concern, China’s nuclear journey has played a considerable role in ...