“One of the problems of things being long ago is that the heat goes out of them,” says Salman Rushdie,...
Salman Rushdie
JLF There was a time when India barely had any literary festivals. There were readings and book launches, there were mushairas and...
Mo Yan: no dissident. Photograph: Ulf Andersen/Getty Images Mo Yan, China's first Nobel laureate for literature, has been greeted with...
Does the bodyguard’s principal make conversation with the bodyguard, as they wait for the light to change, in the dull...
TWO, PERHAPS three years ago, watching a BBC documentary, I saw Syed Shahabuddin recall, eyes still glinting through his spectacles...
In a delicious irony, Salman Rushdie’s new book Joseph Anton, an account of his life on the run from free-speech...
"Politics and literature," Salman Rushdie wrote in 1984, in what now seems an innocent time, "do mix, are inextricably mixed,...
1989. Afterward, when the world was exploding around him, he felt annoyed with himself for having forgotten the name of...
The film of Salman Rushdie's novel Midnight's Children – a love letter to India – has failed to find a...
London: Controversial writer Salman Rushdie, who was born in Mumbai and moved to Britain as a child and now lives...
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