Salman Rushdie had suffered severe knife injuries during the attack in New York last year. He has lost one eye and has taken months to recover from multiple nerve and muscle injuries.
Author Salman Rushdie is best known for ‘The Satanic Verses‘, a book that led to death threats from Islamists around the world, particularly from Iran in the 1980s.
Pakistani movie International Gorillay in 1990 had portrayed Salman Rushdie as conspiring against Islam, and showed his killing by flying books with rays
Rajiv Gandhi had already shown his willingness to bow down to Islamists in the Shah Bano case and he did it again by leading the world in banning Satanic Verses.by Salman Rushdie