“LIKE Jake in the film “Avatar,” Rushdie was a white man in a native’s body who went into the area of darkness and emerged with intel.”
The relationship between Salman Rushdie and India is consecrated in the adjective “Indian-British,” which he is, including the hyphen between. It is a feeble, almost spectral bond, but circumstances have given it a depth that has benefited Rushdie.It is indisputable that he was born in India, in what was then known as Bombay, and that […]