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• in Politics
  Isn’t It A Real Shame Salman Rushdie Can’t Return Home Even In The 21st Century?
  Even Oprah Winfrey could be in India for the much celebrated Jaipur literary festival to see the calm beneath the chaos that is India when Rushdie, a celebrated and invited guest and author was forced to stay away.
  by forgevalley / on Jan 23, 2012
• in Politics
  The Indian Rash Over Rushdie!
  But intolerant India thrives on its internal intricacies. And, who is bothered about it?
  by chinchak / on Jan 19, 2012
• in Celebrity
  Salman Rushdie Faces-Off Against Facebook.
  Rushdie, Exasperated at Facebook Inflexibility Uses Twitter
  by goldensylph / on Nov 15, 2011

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• ‘Midnight’s Children’: Salman Rushdie Helps Adapt His Own Novel

  
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  When Midnight’s Children was published in 1981, one might have assumed that its promising author would become best known as a writer of magical realism and an observer of the divide between India and Pakistan. That’s not the way it worked out for Salman Rushdie. His 1988 novel The Satanic Verses was judged to be ...
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• What to read? (Part 7) Readability

  
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  What makes the difference between those books you just can’t tear yourself away from, and the ones that take a lot of time and determination to finish? “It was a real page-turner…I just couldn’t put it down…it kept me up long past my bedtime.” You’ve heard people spout these clichéd phrases time and ...
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• Whither Moral Courage? By Salman Rushdie

  
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  Stephen Crowley/The New York Times Police officers carried off an Occupy D.C. demonstrator in Washington, October 2011. I’m reprinting this article here because I think it’s worth reading and I don’t think it should be behind the NYT paywall. The fact that it’s become uncool to stand up to power irritates ...
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• Last Nights Parties: The Fashion Set Steps Out At The Chanel Artists Dinner, NYCs Creative Community Celebrates At The Brooklyn Artists Ball & More!

  
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• Real Time With Bill Maher ~ April19, 2013 ~ Salman Rushdie & Nicholas Kristof

  
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  Salman Rushdie and Nicholas Kristof  this week  TULLYCAST 2013 Filed under: Barack Obama, Bill Maher, Boston Bombing, Broadcatching, George W. Bush, Politics, terrorism, Tsarnaev Brothers, Tullycast, Wall Street Tagged: Amy Holmes, april-19-2013-real-time-with-bill-maher-tullycast, Bill Maher, bill maher+tullycast, ...
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• Salman Rushdie on Bringing Midnight’s Children to the Big Screen — Plus: An Exclusive Clip

  
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  Salman Rushdie recently added one more feather to his already-full cap: his 1981 novel Midnight’s Children—one of TIME’s Best 100 English Novels Written Since 1923—has been adapted a movie, for which the author contributed both the screenplay and voiceover narration. Midnight’s Children — winner of ...
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• Midnight’s Children: Rushdie’s Novel Finally Comes to Big Screens

  
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  Today, any garden variety financial advisor will happily pitch you a BRIC fund.  However, the Indian economy was not always a magnet for foreign capital.  In fact, the years following independence were decidedly rocky.  Salman Rushdie’s 1981 Booker Prize winner served as both an indictment of the corruption and ...
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• Bill Maher: “Let’s keep it real”

  
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  I know I’m late to this story but it’s time to talk about the watershed moment that happened this week on Bill Maher’s show . Here’s a partial transcript of Maher’s exchange with Brian Levy, the director of the Center for the Study of Hate & Extremism at California State University in San ...
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• Over Time with Bill Maher, April 19, 2013

  
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• Real Time with Bill Maher: 30,000 Gun Deaths vs. 3 Terrorism Deaths

  
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  Real Time with Bill Maher Episode 279 April 19, 2013 GUN CONTROL BILL MAHER — For those people who just hear that ninety percent of Americans wanted something, they wanted this background check bill passed, and it couldn’t get through the Senate — I want to answer that question for them. How can something ...
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• Joseph Anton: Rushdie on Rushdie

  
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  I remember watching on CNN the World Trade Center collapse on September 11, 2001. I could not believe my eyes as the two planes commandeered by al-Qaeda terrorists hit the twin towers, bringing them down in tongues of fire, clouds of smoke. Nearly 3,000 people were killed and retribution followed with the Americans ...
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• Salman Rushdie and Deepa Mehta on Midnight’s Children

  
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  “You must tell him about the greeting cards,” Deepa Mehta said to Salman Rushdie the other day. The director and the writer were sitting next to one another in a book-lined room in a midtown Manhattan hotel, and as they prepared to field a few of my questions about their new film, she urged Rushdie to share an ...
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• Congratulations to Naomi Alderman

  
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  Granta today has released its influential “once-a-decade” list of twenty promising British writers.  In the past, the list has identified then little-known authors who later came to be major literary figures, including Martin Amis, Pat Barker, Salman Rushdie, Zadie Smith (twice), and Jeannette Witherspoon. ...
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• Reader reviews roundup

  
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  Salman Rushdie, Cees Nooteboom and Kate Atkinson are among the authors reviewed this week Salman Rushdies Midnights Children has been gathering admirers ever since it was published in 1981, with its demonstration of its own assertion that "to understand just one life, you have to swallow the world". One of the ...
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