How many more years for 'mistake' to be corrected?: Rushdie

November 29, 2015 10:05

Hours after former Finance Minister P Chidambaram termed the ban on Salman Rushdie's book Satanic Verses as wrong, the author today asked how many more years it would take to correct the "mistake".

Rushdie's remarks was prompted by Chidambaram's admission that the Rajiv Gandhi government's decision to ban the controversial novel was a mistake.

Chidambaram, who was minister of state for home affairs when the ban was imposed in October 1988, had said at the Times LitFest yesterday that he had "no hesitation in saying that the ban on Salman Rushdie's book was wrong."

Rushdie took to Twitter to say, 'This admission just took 27 years. How many before the 'mistake' is corrected?'

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