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Salman Rushdie did not insult anybody. A great many reactionaries worked extremely hard to feel insulted. And for three decades their murderous rage was rationalised and justified by an embarrassingly large number of literary and political luminaries.

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Kapil Komireddi

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Rushdie, whose Satanic Verses continues to be on the list of contraband items in India, wrote this about his motherland: “India, my too-muchness, my everything at once, my mother, my father, my first great truth”

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" Midnight’s Children, a faux autobiography that follows a magical child born at the stroke of midnight as India gained independence, became a bestseller and won the Booker prize in 1981."

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