Salman Rushdie’s novel ‘The Satantic Verses’ hadn’t been sold in India, the country of the author’s birth, for 36 years, until this week. The novel, which forced the India-born author into hiding after its publication in 1988,

Maulana Yasood Abbas of the All India Shia Personal Law Board (AISPLB) emphasised the importance of maintaining respect for Muslim sentiments.

Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses has arrived at a bookstore in India 37 years after it was published. An import ban by Rajiv Gandhi government kept it away from Rushdie's native country for almost four decades.