Salman Rushdie

No ‘fat’ or ‘female’ characters in Roald Dahl’s books: The controversy over editing the British novelist’s works

Roald Dahl’s books such as ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’ and ‘Matilda’ have been scrubbed clean of words like fat and ugly to make them less offensive. The move has sparked anger with British prime minister Rishi Sunak and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie calling it ‘absurd censorship'

Salman Rushdie attacks Dahl rewrites as 'absurd censorship'

Publishers Puffin have made hundreds of reported changes to characters and language in Dahl's stories

EXPLAINED: Why Salman Rushdie lashed out at ‘absurd censorship’ of Roald Dahl books

Popular Roald Dahl's classics that were adapted to screens including Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Matilda references to weight, mental health, violence, gender and race are to be rewritten or removed to avoid offence to sensitive readers.

What is PTSD, the condition Salman Rushdie is coping with after the knife attack?

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a mental health condition triggered by a terrifying event. While most people associate it with war, it can occur ‘in all people, of any ethnicity, nationality or culture, and at any age’. Salman Rushdie has said the stabbing left him mentally scarred and that

This is what I look like but this isn't what I said: Salman Rushdie

Months after being stabbed repeatedly as he prepared to give a lecture, Salman Rushdie is blind in his right eye, struggles to write and, at times, has “frightening” nightmares

Salman Rushdie releases excerpt of new novel four months after stabbing attack

The New Yorker magazine published an excerpt online entitled 'A Sackful of Seeds' from the 15th novel by Rushdie, titled 'Victory City', which is due to be published in early February by Penguin Random House

Iranian entity behind bounty on Salman Rushdie sanctioned by US

The US Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) took action Friday against the 15 Khordad Foundation, an Iran-based foundation that has issued a multi-million-dollar bounty for the killing of prominent Indian-born, British-American author Salman Rushdie, the Department sa

Salman Rushdie loses sight in eye and use of one hand after knife attack: Report

Salman Rushdie has lost sight in an eye and his one hand is incapacitated following the brutal knife attack on the acclaimed Mumbai-born author in August, his literary agent said.

Dharma Files | How many lives is freedom of expression worth?

When the concept of freedom of expression was first formulated, it was formulated in opposition to matters of faith. India in general does not have a tradition of such antagonism towards faith

Salman Rushdie, Hadi Matar and the art of grievance making: How Islamists find a steadfast ally in liberals

The problem gets compounded by the ‘liberal’ propensity not to debate Islam and Islamism, for the fear of offending the faithful. Those few who dare to initiate a discussion are abused and called names, primarily by mainstream liberals