Over 260 prominent personalities including authors Orhan Pamuk, Margaret Atwood, Salman Rushdie and Amitava Ghosh on Thursday expressed concern over the alleged "targeting" of journalist Aatish Taseer and demanded the Indian government restores his Overseas Citizen of India (OCI) card.
Don Quixote, which remains the most-translated book in the world, has inspired a new novel by Man Booker Prize-winning author Salman Rushdie. Read on for more details!
Rushdie, who was knighted in 2007 for services to literature, said he was "delighted" that the book "will have a new life on Netflix".
In a scathing attack on US President Donald Trump, renowned author Salman Rushdie has alleged that the White House is waging a war against the fourth estate under the label of 'fake news'
Padma Lakshmi tells how she was sent away to India when she told her mother about the horrific incident.
London: Indian-American model and television personality Padma Lakshmi has written a revealing autobiography which includes intimate details of her failed marriage to celebrated author Salman Rushdie. Laxmi, 45, one of the judges on the US television
Tehran: Iran's 27-year-long fatwa against author Salman Rushdie has been renewed with state-run media outlets adding $600,000 to a bounty for the killing of the British author over the publishing of his book "The Satanic
New Delhi: Congress today distanced itself from former Finance Minister P Chidambaram's statement that the banning of Salman Rushdie's controversial novel 'The Satanic Verses' by the Rajiv Gandhi government was wrong. Describing Chidambaram' remark as his
New Delhi: Congress leader P Chidambaram's admission that the Rajiv Gandhi government's decision to ban Salman Rushdie's novel 'Satanic Verses' was wrong on Sunday found support from independent voices, while BJP wondered why it took
New Delhi: Hours after former Finance Minister P Chidambaram termed the ban on Salman Rushdie's book "Satanic Verses" as wrong, the author asked how many more years it would take to correct the "mistake".Rushdie's remarks
Washington: US President Barack Obama visited a local bookstore here with his two daughters Sasha and Malia to buy books, including one of the Indian-origin writer Salman Rushdie.In all Obama purchased nine books.These included 'Purity:
New Delhi: Hours after former Finance Minister P Chidambaram termed the ban on Salman Rushdie's book “Satanic Verses” as wrong, the author yesterday asked how many more years it would take to correct the “mistake”.Rushdie's
New Delhi: Former Union Minister P Chidambaram today said that the ban on Salman Rushdie's controversial novel 'The Satanic Verses' in 1988 by the then Rajiv Gandhi government was "wrong"."I have no hesitation in saying
New Delhi: Booker Prize winning author Salman Rushdie, who came under attack for backing authors protesting against "rising intolerance" in the country, rubbished the criticism by "Modi Toadies", saying he supported no political party but
New Delhi/Chandigarh: Booker Prize winning author Salman Rushdie on Monday joined the growing chorus of protests by writers and poets against spread of "communal poison" and "rising intolerance" in the country even as 12 more
Ernest Hemingway, the well-known author, once said, “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”As far as writing is concerned, maybe this is what all writers follow.
Paris: More than a quarter century after being slapped with a fatwa from Iran calling for his murder over his book "The Satanic Verses", Salman Rushdie says the world has learned the "wrong lessons" about
Johannesburg: An Indian-origin author in South Africa was brutally assaulted and verbally abused after she praised controversial writer Salman Rushdie whose work has angered Muslims around the world.Zainub Priya Dala was hit in the face
Washington:Indian author Salman Rushdie, who won the Booker Prize for his 1981 novel "Midnight's Children", will teach and advise journalism students at New York University as Distinguished Writer in Residence.Rushdie will serve on the faculty
New Delhi: Salman Rushdie, winner of the prestigious Booker Prize, is once again in news for all wrong reasons.This time he has couted controversy for using abusive language against Jnanpith award winning Marathi writer Bhalchandra
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