Judiciary
On September 25, the Supreme Court dismissed a petition seeking a ban on Salman Rushdie’s novel The Satanic Verses, thereby upholding a 2022 Delhi High Court ruling that had kept the book accessible. The Court’s decision signalled no change in the legal status of the novel in India.
The Satanic Verses, which had earlier won the Booker Prize, was banned in India soon after its publication on law-and-order grounds, following widespread protests by Muslim communities across the world who considered the content blasphemous. Despite the ban, copies have remained accessible in certain formats owing to judicial protection.
Rushdie employed the literary technique of magical realism in this work, where supernatural or magical elements are interwoven into an otherwise realistic setting — a style commonly associated with novels and dramatic narratives.
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