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For a fellow who's not to much to look at, you have the instincts of a champion.

Salman Rushdie

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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
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So India’s problem turns out to be the world’s problem. What happened in India has happened in God’s name. The problem’s name is God.
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The USA approach looks like bullying because it is.
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And so it is they who, between them, give me all the reasons for believing in none.
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One of the reasons my name is Rushdie is that my father was an admirer of Ibn Rush'd, the 12th century Arab philosopher known as Averroes in the West. In his time, he was making the non-literalist case for interpreting the Koran.
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The novel does not seek to establish a privileged language but it insists upon the freedom to portray and analyze the struggle between the different contestants for such privileges.
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