Salman Rushdie was nearly a child of midnight. In the novel, a critical role is played by the 1001 “children of midnight” born in the first hour of India’s postcolonial independence.

Over a literary career spanning five decades, Sir Salman Rushdie has been ... Where Midnight's Children had been about India, Rushdie's third novel Shame - released in 1983 - was about a scarcely ...

With Radio 4’s new adaption of Salman Rushdie's hugely popular ... even a whole language...” Rushdie’s language in Midnight’s Children is rich, dense and playful. He subverts traditional ...

Salman Rushdie was born in Bombay ... “My dad would tell us, as little children, his versions of Arabian Nights stories… Aladdin And The Wonderful Lamp, or Ali Baba And The Forty Thieves”.

Why have you put a death threat on Salman Rushdie ... That's why I always say I am one of Rushdie's children. I was radicalised by white liberals." The Salafi school of thought Alyas became ...

Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses has arrived at a bookstore in India 37 years after it was published. An import ban by ...

Salman Rushdie, read by Sam Dastor ... Rushdie (Midnight’s Children) conjures a rich if undercooked story of a doomed empire and its creator, a woman who lived to be 247. A Sanskrit manuscript ...

Amid pressure from several religious groups and politicians, India under Rajiv Gandhi had been the first country to ban ‘The ...

Salman Rushdie’s controversial book The Satanic Verses is available again in Indian bookstores after a court lifted a ...

Salman Rushdie‘s novel The Satantic Verses hadn’t been sold in India, the country of the author’s birth, for 36 years, until this week. The novel, which forced the India-born author into ...