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Salman Rushdie and the freedom to offend

Salman Rushdie and the freedom to offend

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Feb 13, 2024
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In his novel Shalimar the Clown, Salman Rushdie traces the deterioration of Kashmir from a place where Muslims and Hindus could live together in peace and co-operation to a country ravaged by conflict. This descent is signalled early in the novel with the arrival of a character called the Iron Mullah, a blood-and-thunder preacher with “skin the colour o…

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