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Author Salman Rushdie is tended to after he was attacked during a lecture. (Photo: AP)

Attack on Salman Rushdie is 'appalling', says White House NSA Jake...

Rushdie, who faced Islamist death threats after writing The Satanic Verses , was stabbed by a New Jersey resident...

13 Aug 2022 6:59 PM IST

n this still image from video, author Salman Rushdie is taken on a stretcher to a helicopter for transport to a hospital after he was attacked during a lecture at the Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua, N.Y., Friday, Aug. 12, 2022. (AP)

Rushdie's attacker showed sympathy to causes of Iran's Revolutionary...

The New York State Police identified the suspect as Hadi Matar from Fairview, New Jersey while the motive behind the act...

13 Aug 2022 11:49 AM IST

Salman Rushdie (AP file photo)

Salman Rushdie on ventilator, likely to lose an eye, liver stabbed and...

According to Rushdie's agent, Andrew Wylie, the Mumbai-born controversial author was on a ventilator and could not speak

13 Aug 2022 8:17 AM IST

The author was attacked as he was about to give a lecture in western New York.

Salman Rushdie stabbed on stage in New York state

A reporter witnessed a man storm the stage at the Chautauqua Institution and begin punching or stabbing Rushdie as he...

12 Aug 2022 10:15 PM IST

Cover photo of Victory City by Salman Rushdie. (Photo by arrangement)

Book Review | Allegory for a civilisation in crisis an ode to undying...

Despite its serious subtexts, however, Victory City is, first and foremost, a joyous outpouring of the author's bravura...

26 Feb 2023 1:37 AM IST

PEN literary service award recipient Stephen King attends the 2018 PEN Literary Gala at the American Museum of Natural History. (Photo: AP)

Author Stephen King honoured at 2018 PEN America gala

Morgan Freeman, who starred in the film adaptation of King's "Shawshank Redemption," presented the author his award for...

23 May 2018 3:59 PM IST

As India celebrates its 72 Independence Day, we look at a few books that have documented Indias struggle for freedom and have left a mark in our conscience.

Independence Day 2018: 5 books one must read on India's freedom...

From non-fictional accounts to works of fiction we list five must reads that deal with India's struggle for freedom.

15 Aug 2018 9:40 AM IST

Nobel literature laureate Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul (Photo: AFP)

An irascible literary giant

Naipaul deprecated the lives of Indians and West Indians in his writings as much as he criticised Islam.

13 Aug 2018 12:15 AM IST

Religion is sacred, recipes are not

The term jerkâ€ doesn't mean that the curried victim pig or chicken was executed by snapping its neck.

1 Sept 2018 2:47 AM IST

Over the last seventy years there have been many writers who have documented Indias struggle to freedom and her eventual Independence

Books on Indian Independence you should read

We list five must reads that deal with India's struggle for independence from fetters of British Raj.

15 Aug 2017 3:15 PM IST

Is diversity perversity?

I can sort-of-sympathise with some idiot researcher dealing Shashi Kapoor obituary mistaking Rishi for Shashi and...

9 Dec 2017 1:53 AM IST

The attack happened at a particularly happy time for Rushdie. He was in love he had married the poet Rachel Eliza Griffiths the previous year (he is cloyingly admiring when he writes about his current wife) and he was awaiting the release of his latest novel, Victory City. By Arrangement

Book Review | Knife-edge of an artist's vision cuts through fear and...

Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder is not only Rushdie's account of that violent act it is also his way of ...

4 May 2024 12:53 PM IST