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Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.
Author: Salman Rushdie - Indian NovelistMusic , People , Freedom , Rock And Roll
In any authoritarian society, the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside, he will come after you. This is equally true of Sovietism, of China and of Iran, and in our time it has happened a lot in Islam. The point is that it's worse when the authoritarianism is supported by something supernatural.
Author: Salman Rushdie - Indian NovelistYou , Time , Power , Islam
There are two things in Indian history - one is the incredible optimism and potential of the place, and the other is the betrayal of that potential - for example, corruption. Those two strands intertwine through the whole of Indian history, and maybe not just Indian history.
Author: Salman Rushdie - Indian NovelistHistory , Place , Corruption , Optimism
What happened in Pakistan was that people were told: You're all Muslim, so now you're a country. As we saw in 1971 with the Bangladesh secession, the answer to that was: 'Oh no, we're not.'
Author: Salman Rushdie - Indian NovelistYou , People , Country , Pakistan
One of the problems with defending free speech is you often have to defend people that you find to be outrageous and unpleasant and disgusting.
Author: Salman Rushdie - Indian NovelistYou , People , Problems , Free
American literature has always been immigrant.
Author: Salman Rushdie - Indian NovelistAlways , Literature , American , Immigrant
The whole story of migration and what that has done in interconnecting the planet is obviously something I've written about a lot.
Author: Salman Rushdie - Indian NovelistSomething , Story , Done , Migration
The only way of living in a free society is to feel that you have the right to say and do stuff.
Author: Salman Rushdie - Indian NovelistYou , Feel , Society , Way
This is going to make me sound ancient, but I remember Juhu Beach when there weren't any buildings on it. You'd go through countryside and arrive at this amazing beach. I remember driving from Delhi to the Qutab Minar through countryside. Mehrauli was a little village - that's all gone.
Author: Salman Rushdie - Indian NovelistYou , Me , Beach , Village
I do think of Bombay as my hometown. Those are the streets I walked when I was learning to walk. And it's the place that my imagination has returned to more than anywhere else.
Author: Salman Rushdie - Indian NovelistWalk , Learning , Hometown , Imagination
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