Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses has hit the bookshelves in Delhi’s Khan Market. This marks the end of yet another episode sparked by Rajiv Gandhi losing his nerve. The decades-long ban triggered a wave of politics rooted in pseudo-secularism and appeasement. Such knee-jerk, ill-thought bans on books ultimately harm democracy.
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