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Cruelty is not a literary value.

~Salman Rushdie

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I'm not a very big fan of 'Slumdog Millionaire.' I think it's visually brilliant. But I have problems with the story line. I find the storyline unconvincing.

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It is literature which for me opened the mysterious and decisive doors of imagination and understanding. To see the way others see. To think the way others think. And above all, to feel.

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My children are English, and both of their mothers were English.

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The frustrating part of being tagged 'controversial' is people go looking for trouble where there isn't any to look for.

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I remember when I was young, many cities in the Muslim world were cosmopolitan cities with a lot of culture.

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The writers of the French enlightenment had deliberately used blasphemy as a weapon, refusing to accept the power of the Church to set limiting points on thought.

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I am certainly not a good Muslim. But I am able now to say that I am Muslim; in fact it is a source of happiness to say that I am now inside, and a part of the community whose values have always been closest to my heart.

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The West was involved in toppling the Mossadegh government. That ultimately led to the Iranian revolution.

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I will come back to India - so deal with it.

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Biography

Nationality: Indian

Type: Novelist

Born: June 19th, 1947

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