As Salman Rushdie’s stabbing trial in the US grabs international headlines, in the celebrated author’s native India, bookstores are now selling “The Satanic Verses” four decades after India became the first country to ban the book. The ban was not lifted over freedom of speech concerns, but due to bureaucratic ineptitude.
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