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Rushdie stresses importance of literature
By Brittany Ruess In times when the politically powerful attempt to smother speech, renowned author Salman Rushdie said writers often ask themselves how to keep pushing forward. The answer is to keep...
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Salman Rushdie Plays the Trump Card
Salman Rushdie In the pantheon of literature, the best novels manage to feel timeless even as they capture a snapshot of history, from Jane Austen examining Regency-era social mores in Pride and...
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What Makes for “Lasting Literature”
What makes a book tick? What keeps readers coming back to a book again and again, thumbing through dog eared pages and inhaling the cloying smell of well-worn paper? What, indeed, makes one want to...
View ArticleSalman Rushdie: ‘I couldn’t finish Middlemarch. I know, I know. I’ll try again’
The author on meeting Pynchon, why Kafka is unbeatable – and the trouble with Trollope The book I am currently reading I recently visited the old mansion where Thomas Mann’s Buddenbrooks was set, that...
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(From the Times Literary Supplement. Link to the complete article is given below.) “What, then, shall that language be? One-half of the committee maintain that it should be the English. The other half...
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You thought it was over? The Rushdie story is not over yet!
Cover illustration for the London edition of Miguel Cervantes Don Quixote In 1981, Salman Rushdie’s second novel, Midnight’s Children, with its focus on Partition won a Booker Prize. And now, more than...
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Short Story: The Heroic Cyclist
By Murali Kamma The cyclist at Church Square didn’t attract much attention initially, even though he was just going around in circles. Back then, in the era before cellphones and the internet, Church...
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How Anuradha Kumar travels and writes, waiting for ‘time, years probably for...
Anuradha Kumar, the author of Coming Back to the City, Mumbai Stories, in conversation with Mitali Chakravarty Anuradha Kumar has been writing for two decades and in that span of time has authored...
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Jaipur Festival: Where flows the love for literature…
Every January, India hosts the largest literary festival in the world — the Jaipur Literary festival. Founded in 2006, it gathers the glitterati of the literati in the Diggi Palace Hotel in the heart...
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Essay: Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children- Chutney and Pickles by Ramlal Agarwal
In this literary essay, Ramlal Agarwal takes us through Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children calling it a saga set in the backdrop of Partition traversing three generations of a liberal Kashmiri...
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Bookmarked Musings: Victory City-Rushdie’s Magic Carpet by Ramlal Agarwal
In this essay, Ramlal Agarwal observes Salman Rushdie’s writings on India as a country in two of his major works – Victory City and Midnight’s Children. Salman Rushdie’s Victory City is another magic...
View ArticleBook Review: Victory City by Salman Rushdie
Translator and former professor Himansu S. Mohapatra reviews Salman Rushdie’s Victory City (Penguin Random House, 2023) observing how it is history, romance, allegory, feminist manifesto, and poetry...
View ArticleEssay: The Story of Shiva and the Interconnectedness of Fate in Midnight’s...
In this essay, Hafsa Rahman analyses the story of Shiva and explores various possibilities about the interconnectedness of fate in Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children. Midnight’s Children by Salman...
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