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It has been twenty-four years since Satanic Verses was released and the wounds are as fresh as it had been then for Salman Rushdie. Going by the tone of his new book, Joseph Anton, the slights that he suffered at the hands of religious cult leaders, is not something he would be likely to forget any time soon. The fact that the book, Satanic Verses, was banned by the Indian Government four months before the fatwa was slapped on Salman Rushdie, says a lot about the state of affairs in the country. But what is surprising, to say the least is that the book is not banned by the Government for the content imbibed, but for the economics of distribution. The Government of India has banned Satanic Verses under the Indian Customs Act. The book was published in the latter half of the year 1988. The plot revolves around a Bollywood star Gibreel Farishta and a confused British Indian Saladin Chamcha. The book is riddled with magic, madness and characters that seem to jump out of the pages with their idiosyncrasies. The book, a genius in itself, was nominated for the Man Booker Prize and also won the Whitbread award for the Novel of the Year. The plot is filled with sub-plots that take the reader on a journey that surprises and excites in each of its nine parts. Make no bones of it; the novel has its fair share of weaknesses. The last few plots seem a bit lethargic and stretched out but when the entire boom is taken in context, it remains one of the best plots ever to come out of India. The language and the expression are filled with pyrotechnics. Rushdie’s language is eclectic and the sentences are long and filled with imagery of a veritable kind. Though it might seem unobtrusive and mediocre in its aggressiveness, once the words are read out aloud, they take on an entirely new impact. In our age where there are no great wars on the battlefields, but in each of us, Rushdie’s novel becomes even more relevant about the shifting of ideas and intentions at the drop of a hat. You can get a copy of the book by visiting the following link. Anju Batra is a writer based in India. She like to write on Social and cultural subject. She has writer lots of Articles on the subject of free download of ebooks and Books Online.
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