Salman Rushdie
Salman Rushdie is an author, novelist, essayist and sometime critic.
He was born in Bombay (Mumbai) in 1947 and
currently lives in New York City.
Yes, this is about Islam Rushdie's NYT Op-Ed on politicized Islam
post-Sep 11.
Topics
- New York Times special feature on Rushdie has reviews of practically
all the novels and NYT stories on the Rushdie affair.
- Salon's numerous stories on Rushdie include some absolute gems:
- An interview conducted by Peter Kadzis in May 1999. From The
Boston Phoenix.
- An
article describing Rushdie's visit to India in 2000.
- David
Cronenberg interviews Salman Rushdie.
- Rushdie
mailing listat USF
- Imaginative Maps: excerpts from a
conversation with Salman Rushdie, and Writing the Raj away: by Una Chaudhuri
from TURNSTILE.
- SASIALIT:
the South Asian Literature mailing list.
- Rushdie's Un-Indian Music: The Ground Beneath Her Feet Christopher Rollason's essay
- Article on Rushdie, in Spanish, at La Jornada.
- Interview
with Rushdie, in Dutch, from De
Groene Amsterdammer.
- A
Swedish review of Rushdie's work
- Rushdie's
essay in the Guardian on Gandhi
- Images of Bombay that would be
familiar to most Rushdie readers.
- A digest of stories about Rushdie in the
French press
- The Rings of Growth, Kalpish Ratna's review of Step Across this Line.
- Review of Rushdie interview with Internet Talk Radio, the audio clip
of the interview itself has been removed from the server.
- Death, Mutilation and
Rebirth: The Migrant fiction of Salman Rushdie, Jason R. D'Cruz
- The Rushdie
Phenomenon: A Second Look, an essay by C.J.S. Wallia
- Radio interview with Rushdie (Dec. 1992), CBC
Radioworks Libraries Catalogue
- A spate of posts on Rushdie,
I've written to various Usenet newsgroups and mailing lists. Some of the
posts are in response to reviews of Rushdie's work.
- The
Significance of the Rushdie Affair from John Esposito's "The
Islamic Threat: Myth or Reality?"
- Mis/representations of Islam, Salman Rushdie and the 'Rushdie Affair'
an essay by Ismail Isa Patel
- Distorted
Imaginations: Lessons from the Rushdie Affair by Sardar and Davies,
the entire book is on-line.
- The Fatwa and the price of freedom of expression William Nygaard's
speech before the European Parliament's Subcommitte on Human Rights.
- Satanic
Fiction: Possible motives for writing Satanic Verses,
article by S.M.A. Naseer
- Free
Speech and Salman Rushdie, text of presentation made at Rutgers
Univ. March 1989.
- Salman Rushdie and the Misrepresentation of Islam an essay by
Ismail Patel
- Terrorism: The Tehran connection, article in Time magazine, March
21, 1994
- Marketing Satanic
Verses, "Publicity by Infamy"
- The Price of Oil, The Price of Life a commentary on the
"resolution" of the Rushdie Affair.
- Salman
Rushdie's letter to Tasleema Nasreen in Fishnet,
September 2, 1994.
- MSANEWS
FEMINISM: news reports concerning Tasleema Nasreen.
- BANGLADESH:
Death to the author, article on Tasleema Nasreen in Time
magazine, August 15, 1994
- Ninth anniversary
of fatwa against Salman an action alert at The International Freedom of Expression
eXchange
- Rushdie
stuns audience 26-100, article in MIT's The Tech concerning Rushdie's
surprise visit to MIT.
- Satanic
Verses is libel against Islam, article in MIT's The Tech
- Statement from Rushdie Defense Comittee, Feb 1994
- Ibrahim Sharif's
Islam page
- The Iranian magazine
- Extracts from State department report on "Patterns of
Global Terrorism"
"I don't think there is a need for an entity like God in my
life." -- From an interview with David Frost.
"What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to
offend, it cease to exist." -- From
The Swedish "Censorship" Homepage
"I do not envy people who think they have a complete explanation
of the world, for the simple reason that they are obviously wrong."
--From an interview with David Frost (PBS)
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