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Salman Rushdie slams 'Slumdog Millionaire'
Atlanta :: GA :: USA | 9 months ago
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After all the furor that Stephen King sparked by dissing Stephenie Meyer's writing, you might have expected Salman Rushdie to think twice before hammering the movie "Slumdog Millionaire ." Nope -- not even on the night it was winning eight Academy Awards.
Tags: Salman Rushdie, slumdog millionaire, Atlanta
Novelist sheltered Rushdie after fatwa
London :: United Kingdom | 9 months ago
Credibility Ian McEwan , Salman Rushdie , Martin Amis and Julian Barnes - is already the stuff of legend. That was even before we learnt that for two of them the bond even extended to offering safe haven against the threat of state-sponsored assassins. Twenty years...
Tags: Salman Rushdie, Ian McEwan, leader ayatollah, Ayatollah Khomeini
Rushdie's new woman Glenn explains falling for him
London :: United Kingdom | 9 months ago
Credibility According to dailymail.co.uk, Glenn in her first interview after the relationship became public said: "I'm a very frank, realistic person...Neither of us is blind and, of course, it is physical but it isn't only or mostly about looks." Along with the...
Tags: Pia Glenn, Salman Rushdie
Khatami plans to boost Iran economy
Tehrān :: Iran | 9 months ago
Credibility In a Thursday address to politicians from the Reformist camp, Khatami suggested that Iran make foreign policy changes to encourage all-out economic growth in the country. "To compensate for our low foreign exchange revenues, we need to attract foreign...
Tags: Islamic Republic of Iran, Salman Rushdie, Tehran Stock Exchange, Barack Obama, United States
‘Fatwa’ on Rushdie stays--Iran
Tehrān :: Iran | 9 months ago
Credibility Iran said on Wednesday that a fatwa ordering the death of British writer Salman Rushdie was still valid 20 years after it was issued by the revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. "It is natural that as long as a fatwa has not been annulled,...
Tags: Islamic Republic of Iran, Gaza, Israel, Ramadan Abdullah Shallah, Salman Rushdie, Islamic Republic News Agency, Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei, Tehran, Ali Khamenei, Saeed Jalili
Rediff: Salman Rushdie's new gal
New York City :: NY :: USA | 9 months ago
Credibility while the rest of us are celebrating love -- Valentine's Day holds an awful significance for the Mumbai-born Sir Salman Rushdie [ Images ] . You see, the date was February 14, 1989 -- Valentine's Day -- when the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the Supreme...
Tags: Salman Rushdie, Pia Glenn
Recession bites at Rushdie’s Manhattan restaurant
Chicago :: IL :: USA | 10 months ago
Credibility Sir Salman Rushdie announced two months ago that he was going into the New York restaurant business, the Booker prize-winning author told friends that “this may be the first time I’ve ever put my money where my mouth is”. Rushdie’s enthusiasm for the...
Sundarbans: Pride of Bengal
The Sundarbans (Shundorbon in Bengali) is believed to be the largest single block of tidal halophytic mangrove forest in the world. Once, it was known as the most “beautiful" forest in Asia. With a vast number of Sundari trees in its abode, it boasted...
Tags: Bangladesh, Bengali, India, Indian forest lands, Indian National Animal, Pride of Bengal, Ramsar wetlands, Royal Bengal Tiger, Salman Rushdie, Suman Das, Sundarbans, UNESCO World Heritage, West Bengal
Salman Rushdie has no desire left to marry again
London :: United Kingdom | 11 months ago
Credibility I'm not saying I am never going to fall in love again but there is no need to marry," Times Online quoted him, as saying. Nor does he want any more children. "I'm 61, enough already," he says. His latest project, however, is a children's book. "When I...
Tags: Salman Rushdie
Pak behind Mumbai attacks, says Salman Rushdie
London :: United Kingdom | 11 months ago
Credibility India-born author Salman Rushdie blames Pakistan for the 26/11 Mumbai terror strikes and has asked Britain to warn the country that “as long as Pakistan harbours terrorists it's not going to get any Western aid”. The author of " Satanic Verses " told...
Tags: Pakistan, Salman Rushdie, Mumbai, The Times, mumbai attack, Britain, western aid, London, pakistan harbours, harbours terrorists
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