With his latest memoir releasing in April 2024, let us quickly look at some of the best works of Salman Rushdie and try to understand what makes him a genius of Indian diasporic writing in contemporary English literature. Born on June 19, 1947, in Bombay (now Mumbai), India, Salman Rushdie has emerged as one of…
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6 Controversial Banned Books in World Literature and Why You Should Read Them
Here’s a list of 6 banned books that have borne the brunt of regressive criticism across countries and cultures throughout history. Books won’t stay banned. They won’t burn. Ideas won’t go to jail. – Alfred Whitney Griswold The phenomenon of books being kept away from the reading masses is not new. In the past, the…