Recent News: A man was charged with attempted murder in Friday s attack on Salman Rushdie, who, according to his agent, was taken off a ventilator and continues to recover in a hospital.
With a literary career of five decades, Sir Salman Rushdie has been no stranger to death threats due to his controversial work. Born two months before the Indian independence from Britain, Salman Rushdie took his first gaze in Bombay now known as Mumbai. The controversial writer went on to win the illustrious Booker Prize in 1981 for his book, Midnight’s Children; the
For the February 1994 issue of Sight and Sound, we spoke to director Gurinder Chadha about the politics, comedy and Englishness of her seaside-set debut feature.