{"id":123608,"date":"2024-11-08T21:38:55","date_gmt":"2024-11-08T14:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=123608"},"modified":"2024-11-08T21:38:55","modified_gmt":"2024-11-08T14:38:55","slug":"india-scraps-import-ban-on-salman-rushdies-satanic-verses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=123608","title":{"rendered":"India Scraps Import Ban on Salman Rushdie\u2019s \u2018Satanic Verses\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Before the Iranian fatwa <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/08\/12\/nyregion\/salman-rushdie-fatwa-satanic-verses.html\" title=\"\">condemning<\/a> the writer to death, before all the protests and burnings of his book and before the <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/08\/13\/world\/asia\/rushdie-attack-japanese-translator.html\" title=\"\">stabbing death of his translator<\/a>, there was India\u2019s customs notification No. 405\/12\/88-CUS-III.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">India, the writer Salman Rushdie\u2019s home country, became the first place to impose restrictions on his novel \u201cThe Satanic Verses\u201d in 1988, just nine days after its initial publication in Britain, because of concerns that some orthodox Muslims would find parts of the book blasphemous. The Indian government issued a bureaucratic order through the Ministry of Finance, Department of Revenue, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1988\/10\/13\/world\/new-delhi-journal-fantasy-or-blasphemy-a-book-is-a-burning-issue.html\" title=\"\">banning imports of the book<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cMany people around the world will find it strange that it is the finance ministry that gets to decide what Indian readers may or may not read,\u201d Mr. Rushdie <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1988\/10\/19\/opinion\/india-bans-a-book-for-its-own-good.html\" title=\"\">wrote at the time<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">This week, the 36-year-ban came to an unceremonious end for a fittingly pedantic reason: The original order, from Oct. 5, 1988, is nowhere to be found.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Delhi\u2019s high court ruled that it had no choice but to vacate the ban and allow imports of the book, given that the Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs could not produce a copy of the order.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWhat emerges is that none of the respondents could produce the said notification dated 05.10.1988 with which the petitioner is purportedly aggrieved,\u201d the court wrote <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/dhcappl.nic.in\/dhcorderportal\/GetQROrder.do?ID=591\/\/2024\/\/590756001730964530690_35575_46762019.pdf\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">in its decision, dated Tuesday<\/a>. \u201cWe have no other option except to presume that no such notification exists, and therefore, we cannot examine the validity thereof.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"css-1336jj\">\n<div class=\"css-121kum4\">\n<div class=\"css-asuuk5\"><noscript><\/p>\n<div class=\"css-7axq9l\" data-testid=\"optimistic-truncator-noscript\"><svg width=\"24\" height=\"24\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"css-1b5b8u1\"><path fill=\"currentColor\" fill-rule=\"evenodd\" d=\"M2.5 12a9.5 9.5 0 1 1 19 0 9.5 9.5 0 0 1-19 0Zm8.5 1.75v-7.5h2v7.5h-2Zm0 2v2h2v-2h-2Z\" clip-rule=\"evenodd\"\/><\/svg><\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"optimistic-truncator-noscript-message\" class=\"css-6yo1no\">\n<p class=\"css-3kpklk\">We are having trouble retrieving the article content.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-3kpklk\">Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/noscript><\/p>\n<div class=\"css-1dv1kvn\" id=\"optimistic-truncator-a11y\" tabindex=\"-1\">\n<hr\/>\n<p>Thank you for your patience while we verify access. 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