Indrajit Hazra profiles Salman Rushdie for the Hindustan Times
ONE OF the most honest yet under-reported reasons for anyone wanting to become a successful writer is that he can impress and get the girl. (For women, the world still being tragically gender-skewed, the reason for writing is thought to be more noble: for the pleasure of writing.) In the case of Salman Rushdie, noted author and fatwa-fuelled cerebral celebrity every new book, like it or not, sounds like a mating call.
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