April 2012
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“The Muslims, in whose name books have been banned and writers harassed, are...”
– From Amitava Kumar’s excellent piece on reading Rushdie at the Jaipur Literary Festival - engaging with Rushdie as a literary critic, and with the complexity of this political act of speaking out in India (at that time, now)
I didn’t see Kumar read Rushdie at the Festival - but I was... 