Friday, May 18, 2012

Full transcript of Bharka Dutt's interview with Salman Rusdie

http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/full-transcript-im-returning-to-india-deal-with-it-salman-rushdie-to-ndtv-170122 It is now 31 years since the publication of Midnight's Children in 1981 and Rushdie says in terms of freedom of expression,India is much worse than it was.

One of my favorite books--Grendel by John Gardner, famous writer and writing teacher, who died after a motor cycle accident.

Unfortunately he died the year I arrived in America, and I had not yet caught the writing bug. One of my favorite books--Grendel by John G...