Another one bites the dust

Rushdie is old and will die in a few decades. The current hysteria about his visit will die much sooner. The government has appeased the extremists and will probably save its votebanks, or the votebanks would find some other fault and a new government would rise. Water under the bridge. But there is more to this controversy than what the passage of time can sweep under the rug.

There is no doubt that Rushdie is a fucking awesome writer. I have not read Satanic Verses seeing as it is banned. I think that it is the case with most of the extremists opposed to Rushdie. We are ready to lynch and crucify a man for his work that nobody has read. I wonder how people arrive at such conclusions. Was there a meeting where Rushdie’s book was read and defiled and burned and it was decided to martyr him? Or even an attempt by the extremists to see that how much Rushdie is in the wrong? No. It is a simple witch hunt and makes about the same amount of sense.

I don’t blog about current events and the like, seeing as it is all so temporal and hardly matters, but this current event is not like the others. What would happen if Rushdie were to physically manifest in the space-time we call India?

More than that, I find it personally embarrassing, that persons like Rushdie and the late M F Husain who  have brought such laurels for the nation are debarred from visiting India. Grow the fuck up, I want to say.

 

 

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