After Rajiv Gandhi govt banned the import of The Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie written an open letter to the PM condemning the order calling it violation of free society principles
Salman Rushdie had suffered severe knife injuries during the attack in New York last year. He has lost one eye and has taken months to recover from multiple nerve and muscle injuries.
Author Salman Rushdie is best known for ‘The Satanic Verses‘, a book that led to death threats from Islamists around the world, particularly from Iran in the 1980s.
Pakistani movie International Gorillay in 1990 had portrayed Salman Rushdie as conspiring against Islam, and showed his killing by flying books with rays