Salman Rushdie: Victim Or A Potential Martyr? – OpEd

Is Salman Rushdie the unfortunate victim of a certain kind of global politics which has nothing to do with his writing or a potential martyr for the cause of freedom of expression? It is easy to say, neither or both. Midnight’s Children gave Rushdie literary fame owing to the prestigious Booker prize that it won in 1981. What...