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Supreme Court Rejects Ban on Arundhati Roy's Memoir Over Smoking Cover Image
Dec 05, 2025 08:56 pm CST
The Supreme Court dismissed a petition seeking to ban Arundhati Roy's memoir 'Mother Mary Comes to Me' over its cover image showing the author smoking, ruling that the photograph does not promote tobacco products and therefore doesn't violate India's advertising regulations. The judgment upholds an earlier Kerala High Court decision that determined the literary work's cover doesn't constitute commercial cigarette promotion.
Supreme Court of India Rejects Petition to Ban Salman Rushdie's "The Satanic Verses"
Sep 26, 2025 05:51 pm CST
India's Supreme Court has dismissed a petition seeking to ban Salman Rushdie's controversial novel "The Satanic Verses," effectively upholding the Delhi High Court's previous ruling that nullified the 1988 import ban imposed by the Rajiv Gandhi government. The bench noted that the petition was essentially challenging the High Court's judgment, which had concluded that since authorities could not produce the original ban notification, it must be presumed non-existent.