An Epic Of India Gets A Canvas Its Own Size

Thu, 09 May 2013 06:54:00 +0000

In the 1970s, Salman Rushdie was an unknown writer living in London. He decided to return to the country of his birth and rough it across India on what he describes as "extraordinarily long 15-hour bus rides with chickens vomiting on our feet."

That trip inspired Midnight's Children, the Booker Prize-winning novel that many consider Rushdie's literary masterpiece.

Salman Rushdie, John Le Carre End Literary Feud

Krishnadev Calamur — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 22:30:00 +0000

It began with a war of words in the letters pages of the Guardian and ended with comments made to The Times of London.