That Salman Rushdie is once again at the centre of a political storm in the land of his birth over a book he wrote nearly a quarter of a century ago tells us something's afoot in Indian Islam.
The vice-chancellor of Islam's second most important seat of learning, the Darul Uloom, or house of knowledge, at Deoband in Uttar Pradesh, has demanded the author be stopped from attending the Jaipur literary festival at the end of this month. [Guardian Cif] Read more
