India Condemns Attack on Author Salman Rushdie

GG News Bureau

New Delhi, 25th August. In its first response to the attack on Salman Rushdie, India on Thursday condemned the “horrific attack” on the author  and wished him a speedy recovery.

Rushdie was stabbed in the neck and torso on August 12 at the Chautauqua Institution in New York, where he had gone to give a lecture.

“India has always stood against violence and extremism. We condemn the horrific attack on Salman Rushdie and we wish him a speedy recovery,” Arindam Bagchi, spokesperson for the External Affairs Ministry, stated this during his weekly media briefing.

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