Year Of Rushdie?
Looks like this is going to be a year of anniversaries for Salman Rushdie. Not only has he made it to the Booker of Bookers shortlist for Midnight’s Children (the winner will be voted by readers, for a change) but there’s another anniversary which he’d rather forget. His Satanic Verses will be 20 this year. BBC London has commissioned a documentary for the occasion, and the filmmaker was in India last week to interview the man thought to have launched the storm: Khushwant Singh. Incidentally, among the old friends of Rushdie who are shying from talking in front of the camera is the otherwise intrepid feminist Germaine Greer.