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This is going to make me sound ancient, but I remember Juhu Beach when there weren't any buildings on it. You'd go through countryside and arrive at this amazing beach. I remember driving from Delhi to the Qutab Minar through countryside. Mehrauli was a little village - that's all gone.

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Islam is unusual in that it's the only one of the great world religions which was born inside recorded history. That there's an enormous amount of factual historical record about the life of a prophet and about social conditions in Arabia at that time. So it's possible to look at the origin of Islam in a scholarly way.

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What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

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The First Amendment defends all forms of speech including hate speech, which is why groups like Ku Klux Klan are allowed to utter their poisonous remarks.

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Stories in families are colossally important. Every family has stories: some funny, some proud, some embarrassing, some shameful. Knowing them is proof of belonging to the family.

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Friendships are the family we make - not the one we inherit. I've always been someone to whom friendship, elective affinities, is as important as family.

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The response of anybody interested in liberty is that we all have a say and the ability to have an argument is exactly what liberty is, even though it may never be resolved. In any authoritarian society the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside he will come after you.

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American literature has always been immigrant.

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If you're offended, it's your problem.

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One of the problems with defending free speech is you often have to defend people that you find to be outrageous and unpleasant and disgusting.

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Biography

Nationality: Indian

Type: Novelist

Born: June 19th, 1947

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