 | Salman Rushdie among bookie favourites in UK to win Nobel PrizeIf the 75-year-old celebrated British American novelist wins, he will become the first Indian-born writer to win the prestigious honour since Rabindranath Tagore won the Nobel for 'Gitanjali' in 1913. |
 | Even thirty years later, why Salman Rushdie's 'The Satanic Verses' remains so controversialThe book, “Satanic Verses,” goes to the heart of Muslim religious beliefs when Rushdie, in dream sequences, challenges and sometimes seems to mock some of its most sensitive tenets. |
