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Country before Self

Kuensel 11 Jan 2025
A book that speaks to the reader with eloquence and elegance. As we reflect on 2024, we are reminded of how the power of the human mind continues to drive remarkable achievements ... Some of these brought significant news for Asia ... Salman Rushdie’s Knife.
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Review: The Politics of Modern Indian Language Literature by MK Raghavendra

Hindustan Times 10 Jan 2025
A book that undertakes to interpret a variety of literature produced in Indian languages after 1947 with a wide enough sweep to negate Salman Rushdie’s old claim that prose writing in English by ...
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Inside the Royal Society of Literature’s civil war

New Statesman 08 Jan 2025
The accusation of censorship follows ongoing outrage from many fellows about what they perceive to be the RSL’s lack of support for Salman Rushdie after the attempt on his life in August 2022.
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Renowned Sikh poet Daljit Nagra quits as RSL chair in row over censorship and literary standards

The Times of India 07 Jan 2025
... in support of Salman Rushdie when he was stabbed in 2022 and also accused it of censorship after an article critical of Israel was pulled from its annual magazine “Review” and the editor dismissed.
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Royal Society of Literature in chaos as chairman and director resign amid accusations it lowered ...

The Daily Mail 07 Jan 2025
The RSL has been accused of censoring members, including Appignanesi, who is now a freedom of speech campaigner, and former president Dame Marina Warner in the wake of Salman Rushdie's near-fatal stabbing in 2022 ... Salman Rushdie.
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Royal Society of Literature rocked by departures of director and chair

The Observer 07 Jan 2025
“The failure of the RSL leadership to give unequivocal support to Salman Rushdie following the brutal attempt on his life was to inhabit a remote moral universe that most of us do not share,” McEwan told the Guardian last year.
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Royal Society of Literature in meltdown over diversity drive

The Spectator 07 Jan 2025
All is not well in the Royal Society of Literature ... The organisation’s leadership has had a litany of complaints levelled at it, including claims it has failed to defend writers dealing with physical or online attacks, like Salman Rushdie ... SIGN UP ... .
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Royal Society of Literature chiefs quit as diversity drive implodes

The Times/The Sunday Times 07 Jan 2025
It has been accused of censorship, of failing to defend writers under physical or online attack including Salman Rushdie and Kate Clanchy, and of diluting its “literary excellence” criteria for ...
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Royal Society of Literature director quits after free speech rows

The Daily Telegraph 06 Jan 2025
Fellows of the society quit following a series of rows, including what was seen as its lukewarm support for Sir Salman Rushdie, a fellow of the society, after he was stabbed in 2022 ... Woke, Cancel culture, Salman Rushdie.
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Return of Rushdie’s Verses a win for freedom of ideas

Deccan Herald 05 Jan 2025
Torch every book.&nbsp;Char every page. Burn every word to ash. Ideas are incombustible. And therein lies your real fear.”</p>.Salman Rushdie .
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Golden Globes 2025: Who's nominated, hosting, ceremony honorees and more

Journal Gazette 04 Jan 2025
The show will be televised by CBS and streamed on Paramount+. Here are key things to know about the ceremony.. Nikki Glaser. Who's hosting? ... People are also reading… ... 1 Linda R ... BRUCE R ... Salman Rushdie poses for a portrait to promote his book "Knife.
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Politicians are too cowardly to defend free speech in the face of Islamism

AOL 03 Jan 2025
He did nothing illegal ... The incident was unimportant ... The establishment’s capitulation to such clerical bullying goes at least as far back to 1988 when British author Salman Rushdie was condemned to death by the Iranian government for writing a book ... .
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Who will win the Golden Globes? Think: 'Brutalist,' 'Shogun'

Journal Gazette 02 Jan 2025
The Golden Globes have had so many scandals and comebacks it’s hard to say where they’ll fit in after Sunday’s ceremony ... Who selects these things? Good question ... Listen now and subscribe ... Salman Rushdie poses for a portrait to promote his book "Knife ... .
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American-Century Fight, by Patrick Lawrence

The Unz Review 02 Jan 2025
How the C.I.A ... Patrick Lawrence ... Asturias the novelist was chased out of his country multiple times by U.S.–backed fascists but he invented a way of telling stories that influenced many others, from García Marquez to Toni Morrison and Salman Rushdie.
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Patrick Lawrence: American-Century Fight

Scheerpost 02 Jan 2025
Capitol dome ... How the C.I.A ... state ... Asturias the novelist was chased out of his country multiple times by U.S.–backed fascists but he invented a way of telling stories that influenced many others, from García Marquez to Toni Morrison and Salman Rushdie.

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