Latest News for: Salman Rushdie

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Adolescence, the backlash: the nightmare of making hit TV in terrifying times

AOL 26 Mar 2025
Thorne reports a digital backlash, telling GQ ... It was all about my oestrogen levels, and my testosterone levels, and who I was as a man.”. Related ... So Salman Rushdie is half-blinded and otherwise mutilated for his defence of free writing and speech ... .
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What's on? Top 10 TV and streaming tips for Tuesday

RTE 25 Mar 2025
Talking to John Wilson, author Salman Rushdie recalls his childhood in Bombay and the folk tales and religious fables he grew up with ... As Rushdie says, 'truth in art can be arrived at through many doors'.
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Who is American journalist Masih Alinejad? Why is Iran targeting her like Salman Rushdie?

The Times of India 24 Mar 2025
Masih Alinejad, like Salman Rushdie before her, is a stark reminder of how far authoritarian regimes will go to silence dissent ... While Rushdie faced a fatwa over fiction, Alinejad has become a target ...
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What Is Free Speech? The History of a Dangerous Idea by Fara Dabhoiwala review – a flawed polemic

The Observer 23 Mar 2025
Salman Rushdie’s persecution at the hands of religious extremists is not even mentioned, although he was attacked while this book was being written.
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Iowa Residency: End of the road?

Hindustan Times 20 Mar 2025
From curating poetry readings at the local Deadwood bar, attending the Jazz Festival in Pittsburgh, crashing parties in the East Village and reading his poems in front of Salman Rushdie at the United ...
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A scar that won’t heal

Business Line 19 Mar 2025
Thirty-three years after the then Iran leader, Ayatollah Khomeini, issued a fatwa with a nearly $3 million bounty to kill Salman Rushdie for his apparently blasphemous book, Satanic Verses, and years ...
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Spice of Life: Take pride in mother tongue, direct dil se

Hindustan Times 18 Mar 2025
This virtue segregates human from animals ... ((Shutterstock/ Representational image)) ... This chutnification, to borrow Salman Rushdie’s coinage, gives a distinct and unique flavour and is integral to our expression ... ....
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Islamophobia laws are just censorship. Muslims already have solid protection

The Daily Telegraph 17 Mar 2025
Ever since the fatwa issued against Salman Rushdie by the Ayatollah Khomeini in 1989 every writer in this country has known that Islam is out of bounds when it comes to criticism.
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Kansans love themselves some satanic panic

Alternet 16 Mar 2025
Salman Rushdie, among the world’s greatest contemporary novelists, was left blind in one eye after being stabbed repeatedly in 2022 during an assassination attempt in New York. Rushdie had been hunted ...
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Kazuo Ishiguro’s everyday dystopia

New Statesman 14 Mar 2025
Among those on the longlist that did not make it to the shortlist were books by Salman Rushdie, Hilary Mantel, Dan Jacobson, Rachel Cusk, Ian McEwan (Saturday) and JM Coetzee (Slow Man) that might have progressed in any other gathering.
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VSU English professor wins essay prize

The Valdosta Daily Times 12 Mar 2025
Salman Rushdie’s Shalimar the Clown” has earned the South Atlantic Review Essay Prize ... Katawal’s award-winning essay is inspired by Salman Rushdie’s Shalimar the Clown and addresses “the importance of ...
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Of great poets and cursed books

Hindustan Times 12 Mar 2025
The force of social pressure frequently proves far more potent and enduring than the imposition of an executive decree or a judicial verdict ... An illuminating example of this is the controversy surrounding Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses ... ....
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The Guardian view on the Edinburgh fringe: it’s no joke – festivals need investment

The Observer 10 Mar 2025
As the novelist Elif Shafak observed after the attack on Salman Rushdie as he walked on stage at an arts festival in New York in 2022, they are “one of our last remaining democratic spaces” where one ...
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Olivier Todd, French author, biographer of Camus and familiar BBC face in the 1960s – obituary

The Daily Telegraph 10 Mar 2025
Todd’s life of Camus ... He was summarily sacked in 1981 ... At the last minute he refused to use the ticket he had been sent for a British Airways flight from Paris, in protest at BA’s banning Salman Rushdie from its flights as a potential terrorist target.
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“I created my own genre called social thrillers and wrote about society, but in a thrilling way” says Vikas Swarup

The Times of India 09 Mar 2025
And that is when I read Vikram Seth, Arundhati Roy, Salman Rushdie, etc, and I discovered that not one of them has written a thriller, they have all written about society.And I like to say that I created my own genre called social thrillers.
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