Kathmandu, Sept. 27 -- As law students, we are constantly asked to focus on the interconnectedness between law, literature, and society. Blame it either on the educational system's failure to equip students with independent thinking, or my own limitations, but as a student, it was impossible for me to connect society with literature-until I picked up 'Languages of Truth' by Salman Rushdie.

Rushdie is a man who defies a single label. He has written six novels, a memoir and a children's book. He is the founding member of the PEN World Voices Festival in New York. Yet he is best known for his fifth book, 'The Satanic Verses', which prompted a fatwa (a religious ruling or opinion issued by an Islamic scholar of mufti)(...) against him in 198...