Thought for the Day
“A book is a version of the world.
If you do not like it, ignore it;
or offer your own version in return.”
*Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie
Born: 19 June 1947 Bombay (now known as Mumbai), India
An Indian-British novelist and essayist. His second novel, Midnight’s Children (1981), won the Booker Prize in 1981. Much of his fiction is set on the Indian subcontinent. His style is often classified as magical realism mixed with historical fiction, and a dominant theme of his work is the story of the many connections, disruptions and migrations between the Eastern and Western worlds.
His fourth novel, The Satanic Verses (1988), was the centre of a major controversy, drawing protests from Muslims in several countries. Some of the protests were violent, in which death threats were issued to Rushdie, including a fatw? against him by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the Supreme Leader of Iran, on February 14, 1989.
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