Noonday’s Children

Padma Lakshmi: Mind and Body

Anyone who reads Love, Loss and What We Ate realises that there is so much more to Padma Lakshmi than a couple of years spent with a famous man

Padma Purana

What adds spice to the memoirs of Padma Lakshmi, model and celebrity chef whose story stretches from conservative Madras to haute Manhattan, is the portrait of her ex-husband Salman Rushdie, ‘all arched-eyebrows’

Salman Rushdie: The Fabulist at Play

Salman Rushdie in his new novel regains the magic as he unleashes the jinn in the War of the Worlds

I know what you’ll read this summer

Ranging from old school murder mysteries and a New York City cop drama to a World War II whodunnit and a weird little railway adventure, six thrillers for this summer

The Dan Brown Code

The best-selling author of The Da Vinci Code lectures on science and religion, and why he’s adept at killing off characters, in his turn at the Penguin Annual Lecture in India

Rushdie’s Email War

Insulting Traditions

A history of insults in Indian literature

Recreating Bombay’s Child

Satya Bhabha plays the Bombay boy in Midnight’s Children, though he has never lived in India. What helped was one long chat with Salman Rushdie

Remembering the Deadly Review

In ‘Joseph Anton’, Salman Rushdie alleges that an early book review of ‘The Satanic Verses’ in India Today by the journalist Madhu Jain, “lit the fire”. He has not forgiven her for that. Here is Madhu Jain’s version of what transpired before the publication of what was in all probability the first book review of ‘The Satanic Verses’.