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The Free Radio by Salman Rushdie

1. The Free Radio by Salman Rushdie Sem - II, Core – 3. Sr Chandrodaya . J Assistant Professor of English. St Xavier’s College, Mahuadanr . Nilamber-Pitamber University, Latehar , Jharkhand.

2. Overview Early Life & Education. Literary Works Awards and Honours Criticism Famous Quotes

3. Introduction About the Author Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie was born on June 19, 1947 in Bombay (now Mumbai), India. Salman Rushdie is an Indian-born British Writer. The only son of a wealthy Indian businessman and a school teacher in Bombay.

4. Rushdie was educated at a Bombay private school before attending The Rugby School, a boarding school in Warwickshire, England. He was educated at Rugby School and the University of Cambridge , where he received an M.A. degree in history in 1968.

5. After earning his M.A. from Cambridge, Rushdie briefly lived with his family in Pakistan, where his parents had moved in 1964. There, he found work as a television writer but soon returned to England, where for much of the 1970s he worked as a copywriter for an advertising agency.

6. Rushdie has been married four times and is the father of two sons,  Zafar born in 1979 and Milan born in 1997.

7. His first published novel, appeared in 1975. Midnight’s Children Rushdie’s next novel in 1981, a fable about modern India, an unexpected critical and popular success that won him international recognition . Notable works Grimus ,

8. The third popular novel in1983 based on contemporary politics in Pakistan. Published In 1988, a novel drenched in magical realism and was inspired by the life of Muhammad. Shame The Satanic Verses ,

9. Imaginary Homelands (1991) - a collection of essays and criticism; Haroun and the Sea of Stories (1990 ) - the children’s novel East, West (1994) - the short-story collection The Moor’s Last Sigh (1995).

10. The Ground Beneath Her Feet (1999) Fury (2001). Step Across This Line - a collection of essays he wrote between 1992 and 2002 Shalimar the Clown (2005 ) The Enchantress of Florence (2008) - based on a fictionalized account of the Mughal emperor Akbar .

11. Luka and the Fire of Life (2010) Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights (2015) The Golden House (2017), Quichotte (2019) Memoir Joseph Anton (2012)

12. Awards and honors Rushdie received the Booker Prize in 1981 for Midnight’s Children . This novel subsequently won the Booker of Bookers in1993 and the Best of the Booker in 2008.

13. Rushdie's litany of honors and awards are considerable, including honorary doctorates and fellowships at six European and six American Universities.

14. In 2007 Queen Elizabeth II knighted him- an honour criticized by the Iranian government and Pakistan’s parliament.

15. In 2014 Rushdie was awarded the PEN/Pinter Prize . Established in memory of the late Nobel-Laureate playwright Harold Pinter, the annual award honors a British writer for their body of work .

16. Rushdie’s fourth novel, The Satanic Verses , encountered a different reception. Some of the adventures in this book depict a character modeled on the Prophet Muhammad and portray both him and his transcription of the Qurʾān in a manner that, after the novel’s publication in the summer of 1988, drew criticism from Muslim community leaders in Britain, who denounced the novel as blasphemous.

17. Public demonstrations against the book spread to Pakistan in January 1989. On February 14 the spiritual leader of revolutionary Iran , Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini , publicly condemned the book and issued a fatwa (legal opinion) against Rushdie; a bounty was offered to anyone who would execute him.

18. He went into hiding under the protection of Scotland Yard , and—although he occasionally emerged unexpectedly, sometimes in other countries—he was compelled to restrict his movements.

19. To try and dial back the outrage, Rushdie issued a public apology and voiced his support for Islam. The heat around The Satanic Verses eventually cooled and in 1998, Iran declared it would not support the fatwa.

20. Rushdie has also maintained a fiery tongue and pen. He's been a fierce defender of freedom of expression and was a frequent critic of the US led war in Iraq. In 2008 he publicly regretted his embrace of Islam in the wake of the criticism of The Satanic Verses .

21. Salman Rushdie quotes   “Memory's truth, because memory has its own special kind. It selects, eliminates, alters, exaggerates, minimizes, glorifies, and vilifies also; but in the end it creates its own reality, its heterogeneous but usually coherent version of events; and no sane human being ever trusts someone else's version more than his own.”     Midnight's Children

22. Salman Rushdie quotes “Free societies...are societies in motion, and with motion comes tension, dissent, friction. Free people strike sparks, and those sparks are the best evidence of freedom's existence.” “A poet's work . . . to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world and stop it from going to sleep.” The Satanic Verses

23. Salman Rushdie quotes “The only people who see the whole picture,' he murmured, 'are the ones who step out of the frame.” The Ground Beneath Her Feet “What's real and what's true aren't necessarily the same.”    Midnight's Children “Most of what matters in our lives takes place in our absence.” Midnight's Children

24. Salman Rushdie quotes “ ‎ No people whose word for 'yesterday' is the same as their word for 'tomorrow' can be said to have a firm grip on the time.”   Midnight's Children “The world, somebody wrote, is the place we prove real by dying in it.”   The Satanic Verses “Realism can break a writer's heart.” Shame

25. “ Children are the vessels into which adults pour their poison.”  Midnight's Children “Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.” The Satanic Verses “Perhaps the story you finish is never the one you begin.”   Salman Rushdie Salman Rushdie quotes