
Salman Rushdie on Surviving the Fatwa
The New Yorker Radio Hour
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The Last Time You Were in India?
The Ramayana and the Mahabharata are thousands of years old but everybody still knows them. There's a very famous line of comic books in India which take the stories of antiquity and turn them into comic book stories. Children grow up knowing these stories by reading comics, not by reading the actual original texts. Salman Rushdie: I don't know about whether I can go anywhere. It'sWhether I'm ready to or not. And is that a possible thing to do? Everything was possible until this happened. And now I don't quite. You don't.
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