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Rushdie tackles improbable Mr Big
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FIRST THERE is the dog that Salman Rushdie must worry about,
then the cartoonist. One of the novelist's ardent admirers, a New
Delhi human rights lawyer, closed a copy of Rushdie's new book, The
Moor's Last Sigh, and sighed himself. "Salman's incorrigible. As if
he didn't have enough enemies already," the lawyer lamented.
Even with a death warrant issued by Iranian fundamentalists
hanging over him, Rushdie cannot resist aiming the heat-seeking
missile of his wit at other dangerous targ...
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Bombay jubilant after judge frees Hindu extremist
The Independent - London
; THERE WERE scenes of wild jubilation in Bombay yesterday after one of India's most feared Hindu extremist political leaders, accused of inciting ethnic violence that led to the killings of more than 1,000 people, was freed by a court. A judge closed the case against Shiv Sena leader Bal Thackeray,
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The Flame That Lit An Inferno; Hindu Leader Creates Anti-Muslim Frenzy
The Washington Post
; In interviews with colleagues and critics, in news accounts and in his own words, Bal Thackeray, India's most militant Hindu leader, emerges as a man who rules Bombay the way Al ...
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Thackeray v Rushdie.(Indian publisher restrains Salmon Rushdie novel, 'The Moor's Last Sigh,' in Maharashtra State because of its caricature of Hindu nationalist leader Bal Thackeray)(Brief Article)
The Economist (US)
; NOT so long ago India was seen as a liberal and tolerant place. It risks losing that reputation. Rupa, the distributors of Salman Rushdie's latest book, The Moor's Last Sigh (see page 116), have refused to handle it in the state of Maharashtra, whose capital is Bombay. Such reluctance stems from
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`FIRE' FUROR SPOTLIGHTS INDIAN DILEMMA.(Entertainment)
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA)
; No event of recent years has underscored the divisions facing India's vast but troubled film industry as dramatically as the turbulent opening last month of the appropriately named Canadian-Indian movie, ``Fire The film, which played at the 1997 Seattle International Film Festival, is an
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