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India Quotes by Salman Rushdie
- In India, as elsewhere in our darkening world, religion is the poison in the blood. Where religion intervenes, mere innocence is no excuse. Yet we…
- If you listen to the urban speech patterns in India you'll find it's quite characteristic that a sentence will begin in one language, go through…
- I will come back to India - so deal with it.
- In the real world, immeasurable hurt is caused by terrorists based in Pakistan who attack countries like India.
- India is my kid sister.
- The Muslim population in India is, largely speaking, not radicalised. From the beginning, they were always very secular-minded.
- If you look at Indian movies, every time they wanted an exotic locale, they would have a dance number in Kashmir. Kashmir was India's fairyland.…
- In an ideal world, you could reunite the Pakistan-occupied part of Kashmir with the Indian-occupied part and restore the old borders. You could have both…
- Pakistan is alarmed by the rising Indian influence in Afghanistan, and fears that an Afghanistan cleansed of the Taliban would be an Indian client state,…
- When 'Midnight's Children' came out, people in the West tended to respond to the fantasy elements in the novel, to praise it in those terms.…
- So India’s problem turns out to be the world’s problem. What happened in India has happened in God’s name. The problem’s name is God.
- Freedom is not a tea party, India. Freedom is a war.
- India, the new myth--a collective fiction in which anything was possible, a fable rivalled only by the two other mighty fantasies: money and God.
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