PEN Out Loud: Salman Rushdie and Marlon James

[@ramdularsingh1435]

Marlon James is a Jamaican genius in the contemporary creative world of ours ! Salman Rushdie is a living legend of the same world we all are also living in. So it's a brilliant interview of the two by the two and for all of us ! I loved it.

[@arpanchatterjee2559]

These two are gems in their own ways and have a distinctive command over the reader.

[@prasantbanerjee8199]

Marlon James is a good solid writer. Sir Salman, on the other hand, is, and emphatically, a great writer as well as a prescient speaker. It shows. Nonetheless, the conversation is very enjoyable indeed.

[@AndreGPilz]

lol

[@georgepetroff867]

Thanks. Such an interesting discussion, certainly encourages me to read Quichotte.

[@everhere2455]

placebo effect ?

[@everhere2455]

why it is hard to end him if issued fatwa on him ?

[@keor546]

Tobias Smollett was Scottish not English. Come on Salman!

[@Faseeh626]

Smollett wrote in English not in Scots. So, in this sense, he is an English writer. 😀

He is a second rate writer and is certainly wrong about India living in a delusion of past glory. Definitely not a big fan of BJP! Indians have very little to do with Mr. Rushdie - only a few desi Anglophiles are impressed by his worn-out humor. He needs a new wife...

[@danielortega2441]

Ohhh.. you clearly are mistaken.....you are pure bhakt it seems, the kind the BJP has turned you into, I hope that your fantasy of Modi rescues you from all your problems

@@danielortega2441 I don't need Modi to solve my problems. Rushdie is a third rate writer who came to world fame not for his writing but for the fatwa the grand mullah of Iran declared on his head! India doesn't have any delusion about its past glories, and it certainly has no need for Rushdie's half-penny wit to reflect on its past. Your param guru Mr. Marx used to think Indians are so ignorantly backward that they will never be able to understand and use his awesome revolutionary ideas - they were better off under the Brits. The great humanist Dickens wanted total decimation of the Hindu race after a few Brit civilians were butchered during the Sipoy Mutiny...