Introduction Once a medical college professor said to his students: “If you want to make good money as a physician, choose paediatrics as a career.” When children fall sick, parents generally become frantic in their attempts to provide medical care for them. They take their unwell children to paediatricians for advice and are ready to…

What is known as the Rushdie affair is an outgrowth of the publication of Salman Rushdie’s book The Satanic Verses in September 1988 by Viking Penguin. It has been haunting the global Muslim population since then. The book sparked outrage and triggered large protests which led to street riots, deaths and injuries. All these fuelled…