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  My book, India Becoming, will be published on March 15th, 2012. Read an excerpt in The New Yorker.
  
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  I write a lot about development and change in modern India--how new wealth is changing the country, for better and for worse. See these reports from the International Herald Tribune and The New York Times. (1, 2).
  
  I'm particularly interested in (and concerned by) the environmental destruction being wrought by development. See this report on coastal erosion from Granta, and this report on India's garbage crisis.
  
  I've also written on development for The Atlantic (an essay review on Amartya Sen ) and The Economist (on the digital divide).
  
  I've written several literary essays and reviews over the years. See this one on VS Naipaul, from Transition, and this one on Indian literature, from The New Statesman.
  
  Two articles on the five-year anniversary of the tsunami (1, 2), from The International Herald Tribune and The New York Times. These follow-up from my two original reports on the tsunami, published in The New Yorker (1, 2).
  
  

Speech by Salman Rushdie

A wonderful meditation on artistic freedom and tolerance (and intolerance) in India. Observations on the M. F. Hussain’s situation. Overall, an enlightening and thought-provoking speech, from the India Today Conclave. Scroll down past the introduction to read Rushdie’s speech.

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One Response to “Speech by Salman Rushdie”

1. Raj says:

   January 21, 2011 at 8:48 pm

   It’s a pity that the likes of Rushdie/Husain et al. have settled abroad. It’s obvious that the country produces some intellectually radical mindsets – it is precisely such mindsets that challenge the status quo and enable progress.

   I bet they can contribute more to the country and ultimately their biggest market base.