{"id":133972,"date":"2025-02-12T06:10:28","date_gmt":"2025-02-12T11:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/02\/12\/rushdies-satanic-verses-hits-indian-bookshelves-after-bureaucratic-blunder\/"},"modified":"2025-02-12T06:10:28","modified_gmt":"2025-02-12T11:10:28","slug":"rushdies-satanic-verses-hits-indian-bookshelves-after-bureaucratic-blunder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/02\/12\/rushdies-satanic-verses-hits-indian-bookshelves-after-bureaucratic-blunder\/","title":{"rendered":"Rushdie\u2019s \u2018Satanic Verses\u2019 hits Indian bookshelves after bureaucratic blunder"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>As Salman Rushdie\u2019s stabbing trial in the US grabs international headlines, bookstores in the author\u2019s native India are now selling \u201cThe Satanic Verses\u201d, almost four decades after banning it. The ban was lifted not over freedom of speech concerns but due to bureaucratic ineptitude.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Salman Rushdie\u2019s stabbing trial in the US grabs international headlines, bookstores in the author\u2019s native India are now selling \u201cThe Satanic Verses\u201d, almost four decades after banning it. The ban was lifted not over freedom of speech concerns but due to bureaucratic ineptitude.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,20],"tags":[21,22],"class_list":["post-133972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-la-une","category-news","tag-monde","tag-world","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}