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Writer Salman Rushdie has been fatally attacked during an event in New York. He is undergoing treatment in the hospital. The attacker has been arrested.
Natwar Singh said that though he doesn't favour banning books, keeping law and order of India then in mind, it was the right decision
Rushdie's 'Midnight's Children' is one of the great novels of the 20th century but the decision to ban 'The Satanic Verses' was taken for law and order reasons, Singh asserted
Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomeini had issued a fatwa against Rushdie and called for his death after the release of the book in 1988
Hadi Matar, 24, from Fairview, New Jersey, attacked Salman Rushdie
Salman Rushdie has faced death threats over his book 'The Satanic Verses' ever since it was published in 1988
Rushdie, who was airlifted to the hospital after being stabbed, is currently undergoing treatment
Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasreen was forced out of her country as her writings were interpreted to be against Islam
Salman had a fatwa issued against him by Iran's late leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini
He was stabbed repeatedly by an unknown assailant at a lecture at New York's Chautauqua Institution
Salman Rushdie, an Indian-born novelist, spent years in hiding after Iran urged Muslims to kill him because of his writing
He was stabbed in the neck and torso onstage at a lecture in New York state on Friday
After hours of surgery, Rushdie was on a ventilator and unable to speak on Friday
Salman Rushdie has been attacked in New York. Salman Rushdie was on his way to deliver a lecture in New York and in the meantime an attacker stabbed him several times with a knife. New York Police has also taken the attacker into custody. In the latest, information is that Salman Rushdie has been taken to the hospital via helicopter.
Salman Rushdie has been attacked in New York. Salman Rushdie has been in controversy over his books, but he has now been targeted. Salman Rushdie was going to give a lecture in New York and amid this a man reached the stage and attacked him.
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