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There are about 30 books written by Salman Rushdie, which include fiction, non-fiction novels and children’s books.
Delhi High Court has lifted the ban imposed in 1988 on the import of Salman Rushdie’s controversial book ‘The Satanic Verses’. The court said that since the authorities could not produce the notification imposing the ban, it should be assumed that it does not exist. The bench of Justice Rekha Palli and Saurabh Banerjee had given this decision on 5 November.
Know how this case reached the court In 2019, a person named Sandipan Khan had filed a petition regarding the import of the book. Sandipan said, he had ordered the book ‘The Satanic Verses’. But due to the notification issued by the Customs Department 36 years ago, the book could not be imported. But it was neither available on any official website nor did any concerned official have the documents related to it.
Now know why the book ‘Satanic Verses’ is controversial The meaning of the novel ‘Satanic Verses’ in Hindi is ‘Satanic Verses’. People of Muslim religion had lodged objection on the name of this book itself. Rushdie has written a fictional story in this book. The story is like this that two film actors are going from Mumbai to London by plane. One of them is film world superstar Jibril and the other is ‘voice over artist’ Saladin.
Midway, the plane is hijacked by a Sikh terrorist. After this, the plane is passing over the Atlantic Ocean, when the terrorists start arguing with the passengers. An angry terrorist detonates a bomb inside the plane.
In this incident, both Jibril and Saladin are saved by falling into the sea. After this both their lives change. Then one day, some stories related to the life of the founder of a particular religion come to Jibril’s dream, who is heading towards madness. After this he thinks of establishing the history of that religion in a new way. Further, Rushdie has written the stories of his story’s characters Jibril and Saladin in such a way that it was considered blasphemous.
Ban on book and fatwa to kill
This picture is from the time when protests started in many countries of the world as soon as the novel ‘Satanic Verses’ came into the market. (Photo courtesy: The British Library)
India was the first country to ban this novel. At that time there was Rajiv Gandhi government in the country. After this Pakistan and many other Islamic countries banned it. In February 1989, Muslims organized a large protest against Rushdie in Mumbai. 12 people were killed and more than 40 were injured in police firing on this demonstration.
Ayatollah Khomeini, leader of Iran’s Islamic Revolution, issued a death edict against him in 1989. On August 3, 1989, an attempt was made to kill Salman Rushdie by detonating RDX at a hotel in Central London, but he narrowly escaped the attack. Later Mujahideen of Islam took responsibility for this incident. A person posing as a human bomb had carried out this explosion inside the hotel.
After this, Salman Rushdie was living his life secretly and under police protection. The Iranian government publicly said 10 years later, in 1998, that it no longer supported Salman’s death. However, the fatwa remained in place.
In 2006, the head of the Hezbollah organization had said that millions of Muslims were ready to take revenge for the blasphemy committed by Salman Rushdie. Ready to do anything to avenge the insult to the Prophet. In 2010, terrorist organization Al Qaeda had released a hit list. In this, there was also talk of killing Salman Rushdie on the charge of insulting the religion of Islam.
59 people lost their lives in ‘Satanic Verses’ controversy 59 people have been killed in violent protests taking place in many countries around the world over Salman Rushdie’s book ‘Satanic Verses’. The number of these dead also includes the publisher of this book and the people who translated it into other languages.
Japanese translator Hitoshi Igarashi had translated Rushdie’s book ‘Satanic Verses’ into his own language. A few days later he was brutally murdered. Similarly, deadly attacks have also been carried out on the Italian translator and Norwegian publisher of ‘Satanic Verses’.
This is the ‘Satanic Verses’ book, about which there was controversy.
Who is Salman Rushdie? Salman Rushdie, born on 19 June 1947 in Mumbai, belongs to a Kashmiri Muslim family. Rushdie’s family started living in Britain a few years after his birth. In such a situation, after completing his schooling from the famous Rugby School of England, Rushdie did further education from Cambridge University.
Then after obtaining MA degree in History in 1968, in 1970 he started working as an advertising writer in London. After this, in 1975, Rushdie published his first book named Grimas.
Salman Rushdie had 4 marriages
In this picture, Salman is seen with Rushdie’s fourth wife Padmalakshmi.
Writer Salman Rushdie has been married four times. Salman’s first marriage was to Clarissa Luard in 1976. Clarissa’s relationship ended after about 11 years. After this, Rushdie married American novelist Marian Wiggins for the second time. Rushdie divorced Wiggins in 1993.
After this, in 1997, Salman Rushdie married a woman named Elizabeth. In 2004, Rushdie married for the fourth time. This time he married an Indian-origin American actress and model Padmalakshmi. However, on July 2, 2007, Rushdie also divorced Padma.
Salman Rushdie was awarded the ‘Booker Prize’ in 1981 and the ‘Best of the Bookers’ award in 1983 for his second novel ‘Midnight’s Children’. There are about 30 books written by Salman Rushdie, which include fiction, non-fiction novels and children’s books.
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