India's ban on Rushdie’s 'Satanic Verses' may end — thanks to missing paperwork
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FILE - Salman Rushdie poses for a portrait to promote his book 'Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder' at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin, May 16, 2024. The front pages of the Aug. 13 edition of the Iranian newspapers, Vatan-e Emrooz, front, with the headline 'Knife in the neck of Salman Rushdie,' and Hamshahri, rear, with the headline: 'Attack on writer of Satanic Verses,' are pictured in Tehran, Aug. 13, 2022.
The decadeslong ban of Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses in his native India is now in doubt — not because of a change of heart more than two years after the author's near-fatal stabbing, but because of what amounts to some missing paperwork.
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