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Christopher Lingle 08:45 PM | November 10,2009
Freedom of speech is imperative. We should never censor opinion, no matter how wrong it may be
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12:26 AM | August 22,2009
Most bans begin either with administrative or political fears of unrest (an example being Salman Rushdie’s ‘Satanic Verses’) or the whim of a political leader
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Postscript | Lakshmi Chaudhry 09:45 PM | July 03,2009
When looking for good sex in literature, it’s safest to stick with the poets, perhaps because poems are existential, not empirical; they capture the experience, not the deed
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Delhi’s Belly | Melissa A.Bell 10:09 PM | June 26,2009
Book launches in the Capital are no longer boring dos. Think treasure hunts, rock acts, performance art
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Here, There, Everywhere | Salil Tripathi 09:00 PM | June 25,2009
Many have cast the rivalry of Ahmadinejad and Mousavi as between dark and light, falsehood and truth
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Here, There, Everywhere | Salil Tripathi 10:16 PM | June 24,2009
Many have cast the rivalry of Ahmadinejad and Mousavi as between dark and light, falsehood and truth
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Postscript | Lakshmi Chaudhry 12:30 AM | June 06,2009
Midnight’s Diaspora: Encounters with Salman Rushdie, is an anthology with contributions from Gauri Vishwanathan, Akeel Bilgrami, Husain Haqqani, Sara Suleri Goodyear and Shashi Tharoor
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Chandrahas Choudhury 08:39 PM | May 29,2009
A book on Salman Rushdie that has very little to say about him
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Lucian Harris 10:52 PM | April 16,2009
Nilima Sheikh’s new solo show depicts the pain of the displaced in Gujarat and Kashmir
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Chandrahas Choudhury 10:44 PM | March 27,2009
A love story that is, says Orhan Pamuk, the greatest Istanbul novel
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Himanshu Bhagat 09:25 AM | March 27,2009
The Canada-based director on her new film, adapting Rushdie and why she doesn’t make issue-based films
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First Cut | Priya Ramani 11:02 PM | March 13,2009
I’ve always believed that everyone has one book within him or her--but creating a body of work is what differentiates the men from the boys
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Here, There, Everywhere | Salil Tripathi 10:07 PM | February 19,2009
The name Sri Rama Sene sounds hypocritical, since Rama is supposed to be maryada purushottam, or the perfect human who understands the limits of behaviour, whereas the Sene’s conduct knows no limits
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Here, There, Everywhere | Salil Tripathi 06:18 PM | February 19,2009
The name Sri Rama Sene sounds hypocritical, since Rama is supposed to be maryada purushottam, or the perfect human who understands the limits of behaviour, whereas the Sene’s conduct knows no limits
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Salil Tripathi 10:48 PM | February 13,2009
After two decades, Rushdie’s controversial masterpiece remains a testimony to freedom of expression and the power of imagination
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