Review of Rushdie’s Joseph Anton
from Bloomberg Businessweek Joseph Anton: A MemoirBy Salman RushdieRandom House656 pp; $30 At the Jaipur Literature Festival earlier this year, literary heavyweights such as Michael Ondaatje and Tom Stoppard rubbed shoulders with Oprah Winfrey and Bollywood stars on the lawns of Diggi Palace. All the same, the proceedings were dominated by a man who wasn’t […]
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An essay in Time magazine’s special on India
Time magazine’s special issue on “Reinventing India” hits the newsstands today, and my opening essay, “In Search of a New India,” is in it. I argue that India is at an “inflection point—increasingly disenchanted with its current trajectory, aware of the limitations in its current model of development, yet still grasping for a new model.” […]