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6 days ago · Salman Rushdie (born June 19, 1947, Bombay [now Mumbai], India) is an Indian-born British-American writer whose allegorical novels examine historical and philosophical issues by means of surreal characters, brooding humor, and an effusive and melodramatic prose style.
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- Salman Rushdie is an Indian-born British writer whose allegorical novels examine historical and philosophical issues. He is known for his novels, i...
- Salman Rushdie was born in Bombay (now Mumbai), India, on June 19, 1947.
- Salman Rushdie received the Booker Prize in 1981 for Midnight’s Children. The novel is a fable about modern India and became an unexpected critical...
- Salman Rushdie was knighted in 2007.
Salman Rushdie's stabber rejects plea deal involving terrorism charge with lesser jail term - Times of India
Hadi Matar, the 26-year-old accused of stabbing author Salman Rushdie in 2022, turned ...
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Sam Manekshaw Death Anniversary 2024: 5 Facts About the India's First Field Marshal - News18
Sam Manekshaw, fondly known as Sam Bahadur, is amongst some of the most famous figures of the Indian Army. The former chief of army staff se...
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Jun 19, 2024 · Rushdie was born in Bombay (now Mumbai), British India to a Muslim family of Kashmiri heritage. His father, Anis Rushdie, was once dismissed from the prestigious Indian Civil Services (ICS) after the British government found out that he had produced a forged date of birth proof.
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Jun 12, 2024 · Midnight’s Children, allegorical novel by Salman Rushdie, published in 1981. It is a historical chronicle of modern India centring on the inextricably linked fates of two children who were born within the first hour of independence from Great Britain. Exactly at midnight on Aug. 15, 1947, two boys.
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Jun 25, 2024 · Salman Rushdie is an American-British novelist who was born in India. He has won several prestigious awards and has won various literary awards including the Booker Prize, Whitbread Books Award, and International Dublin Literary Award among others.
1 day ago · Interview: Meeting Salman Rushdie evokes the profound emotion of witnessing his survival. Nearly two years after the attack, the “The Satanic Verses” author returns to the stage, embodying the...
Jun 19, 2024 · Instagram. 1981 Booker Prize winner and perhaps Rushdie's best-loved novel, Midnight's Children tells the story of Saleem Sinai, who is born at midnight, just as India gains independence from Britain.
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6 hours ago · The man charged with stabbing author Salman Rushdie rejected a plea deal Tuesday that would have shortened his state prison term but exposed him to a federal terrorism-related charge, the suspect’s lawyer said. Hadi Matar, 26, has been held without bail since the 2022 attack, in which he is accused of stabbing Rushdie more than a dozen times ...
