India should protect Husain: Rushdie

Salman Rushdie says India should not become a closed world by becoming another China, another Iran, or another Pakistan.
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India should protect Husain: Rushdie

India should protect Husain: Rushdie

Author Sir Salman Rushdie takes the Indian government to task for not acting positively in the MF Husain case and says modern India is giving itself up to extremism, both Hindu and Muslim.

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She said, He said

Tolerance is not an alien idea to us, Indians. If I am not allowed to write, I would rather not write.
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