Bureaucratic mishap brings happy ending to ban on controversial Salman Rushdie book in India

An Indian court has overturned a 36-year-old order banning the import of copies of Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses because nobody could find the original order.

Bureaucratic mishap brings happy ending to ban on controversial Salman Rushdie book in India
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An Indian court has overturned a 36-year-old order banning the import of copies of Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses because nobody could find the original order.