Many of us persons of the tinted persuasion care about huma… - Salman Rushdie

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Many of us persons of the tinted persuasion care about human rights and artistic freedom too.

Salman Rushdie

1994 cultural-relativism racism human-rights freedom-of-expression

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Sir Salman Rushdie (born Ahmed Salman Rushdie, Urdu: أحمد سلمان رشدی, Hindi: अह्मद सलमान रश्डी on 19 June 1947) is an Indian-born British novelist and essayist. Most of his work is set on the Indian subcontinent.

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Native Name: سلمان رشدی

Alternative Names: Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie • Rushdie • Ahmed Salman Rushdie • Joseph Anton

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Captain Ahab drowned, he reminded himself; it was the trimmer, Ishmael, who survived.

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Repression is a seamless garment; a society which is authoritarian in its social and sexual codes, which crushes its women beneath the intolerable burdens of honour and propriety, breeds repressions of other kinds as well.

Many of us persons of the tinted persuasion care about human rights and artistic freedom too. - Salman Rushdie

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