'What I really want to say is that my main overwhelming feeling is gratitude'...

Following the recent brutal attack on Salman Rushdie, famous writers have been reading passages from his works. Here's a look at how 1988's "The Satanic Verses" struggled to be published in German...

We wish author a speedy recovery, says Arindam Bagchi...

Readers write in from Chennai, Sholavandan, Ujjain, Mumbai and Calcutta...

'Anger in the Islamic world at the Mumbai-born author's controversial novel, The Satanic Verses was understandable, the act was unjustifiable'...

Silvana Fardos says her son had returned from a 2018 trip to West Asia a changed man — reclusive and increasingly focused on his role as a follower of Islam...

Statements by Kiran Desai, Jhumpa Lahiri, Geetanjali Shree, Salman Rushdie and Rajmohan Gandhi express anguish, defeat, defiance, rage, prayer and hope ...

33 years after the fatwa was placed on the author's head, the demons still pursue him...

The 75-year-old married the Chennai-born woman in 2004 and got divorced in 2007...

The 75 year-old author, who faced Islamist death threats for years after writing 'The Satanic Verses', was stabbed in New York on Friday...