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On August 12, Salman Rushdie was preparing to speak at an event at the Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua, NY, when a man rushed the stage and stabbed him multiple times.  
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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






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