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Salman Rushdie on Surviving the Fatwa

The New Yorker Radio Hour

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Is the World on a One Way Journey to Worse and Worser?

I love India in a way that you can only love the country of your birth. And I always will. But matters are getting worse there politically. Terrible. Are politics and events in India on a one way journey to worse and worse? Yeah, except that I never believe anything is permanent. You know, if we had been sitting here a couple of months ago in the year 1989 and I had said to you, the Soviet Union will not exist at Christmas, it would have seemed crazy. This thing which looks permanent and immutable and powerful vanishes. I'm saying that the world can change. Go ahead!

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