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UPDATED: June 5, 2021 11:58 IST Salman Rushdie; Getty Images Salman Rushdie was 72 when he contracted Covid in March 2020. His age and asthma gave his family cause to worry. The virus, thankfully, never reached his lungs. Having recovered 17 days later, he, like so many others, missed his children. After Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a fatwa against The Satanic Verses in 1989, calling for Rushdie’s death, the author was forced to move from one safe house to another. When New York went into lockdown, he was told, “This must be familiar to you.” Rushdie’s comeback, one he thought but never articulated, is as funny as it is unnerving: “A stone thrown at a man’s head in a village square is not the same as a lethal avalanche of boulders descending upon that village and destroying it.” There are, however, other reasons to enjoy his essay, ‘Pandemic’.

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