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America

Man found guilty of trying to kill Salman Rushdie

Hadi Matar faces up to 25 years in prison and will be sentenced in April after being convicted of attempted murder and...

22 Feb 2025 1:26 AM

Columnists

Farrukh Dhondy | Will attacker of Rushdie get to politicise trial in...

Hadi Matar’s trial for the attempted murder of Salman Rushdie begins in New York, raising questions about his...

14 Feb 2025 4:44 PM

World

Testimony in trial of man accused of trying to kill Salman Rushdie...

The 77-year-old author was blinded in one eye in the attack and spent months recovering, a process he detailed in a...

11 Feb 2025 9:32 AM

America

I'm 1000 per cent in for her: Salman Rushdie backs Kamala Harris

New York: Renowned author Salman Rushdie has backed US Vice President Kamala Harris for the presidential elections,...

30 July 2024 5:07 AM

Lifestyle

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 5:55 AM

Lifestyle

Book Review | Narrating the Lankan experience in guise of a...

It is 1989. A brutal civil war is tearing Sri Lanka apart. Maali Almeida, the narrator of Shehan Karunatilaka’s...

12 Nov 2022 7:35 PM

Opinion

Saeed Naqvi | RSS’ Bhagwat and Muslims: Recalling Bhaurao Deoras’...

When a conversation between five prominent Muslims and RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat has generated a debate, a 1990 interview...

9 Oct 2022 6:30 PM

Opinion

Saeed Naqvi | The ‘Satanic’ furies: A look at the genesis

Hindu consolidation against one community can easily mutate into consolidation against the biggest minority

27 Aug 2022 6:45 PM

Opinion

DC Edit | We need zero tolerance for insult to any religion

No religion can be insulted. No god or religious figure, prophet or saint should be denigrated, or spoken about in a...

24 Aug 2022 6:40 PM

Opinion

DC Edit | No real friends of freedom

Hyderabad deserves to be congratulated for the successful organisation of a stand-up comedy show by Munawar Faruqui...

21 Aug 2022 7:10 PM

Opinion

Shobhaa De | Theatre of the Absurd: At 75, promising miracles…

All the world’s a stage… and all the men and women, merely players…” wrote William Shakespeare...

19 Aug 2022 6:35 PM

Opinion

Farrukh Dhondy | The targeting of Salman Rushdie: Shadow of the 1989...

“The furtive magpie crouched and stitched the ground With ever still a watchful, wary eye For any sign of movement...

19 Aug 2022 6:33 PM