That was Salman Rushdie in January 2013, in The Indian Express, the place he had dropped by for Idea Exchange, the newsroom’s weekly interplay with newsmakers.
He was referring to his 1988 novel that had set off a sequence of loss of life threats in opposition to him and compelled him to reside in hiding for practically a decade following the pronunciation of a fatwa in opposition to him by Iran’s non secular chief Ayatollah Khomeini.
Details are nonetheless sketchy about his situation and the person who attacked him, however in line with stories, Rushdie was on stage on the Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua, New York, when the assault came about. (REUTERS/Brian Snyder)
On Friday, Rushdie, 75, was attacked by an unidentified assailant in Chautauqua, New York, as he waited to ship a lecture.
On its launch, The Satanic Verses was banned in international locations world wide for purportedly hurting the non secular sentiments of Muslims for its satirical portrayal of the Prophet.
Incidentally, India had been the primary nation to ban the e-book.
“The ban was a second of spinelessness nevertheless it wasn’t the one such second. At the time of the ban, there have been no copies obtainable in India,” he mentioned.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
