Salman Rushdie (PHOTO: X)
Famous novelist and Booker prize-winning Salman Rushdie has recently come out to declare the significance of the freedom of speech and its perceived restrictions in a number of nations including India.
In the interview, Rushdie expressed that he was concerned with the emergence of Hindu nationalism in India with Prime Minister Narendra Modi in office and the bad image of Muslims.
However, the comment was harshly clapped back in social media with netizens reminding him that he had nearly died after being stabbed 15 times on the stage by a radical Islamist extremist fanatic in upstate New York in 2022.
“I feel very worried about it. I have many friends in India. All people are enormously worried about the assault on the freedom of journalists, writers, intellectuals, professors et cetera,’ Rushdie told Bloomberg. He mentioned that there was an apparent project to rebrand India:
It appears they want to rewrite the history of the nation; in other words, to say Hindus good, Muslims bad, the thing VS Naipaul used to refer to as the wounded civilisation, the notion that India is a Hindu civilisation, hurt by the introduction of Muslims. There is a lot of dynamism behind that project.
The British writer has been grappling with threats that have been decades old after writing his 1988 novel, The Satanic Verses, which made Iran issue a fatwa against him to be killed.
Rushdie was stabbed on August 12, 2022, seconds before he was to give a lecture in western New York.
The attacker, Hadi Matar who was 27 years was subsequently sentenced to 25 years in prison after a jury convicted him of the attempted murder and assault.
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