After decades spent in the shadow of a death sentence pronounced by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Salman Rushdie is quietly defiant. “I don’t want to live hidden away,” he told AFP during a visit to Paris. The novelist’s life changed forever on February 14, 1989, when Iran’s spiritual leader ordered Rushdie’s execution... read full story
"I don't want to live hidden away,"
Photo: Salman Rushdie on the Frontiers of Thought Porto Alegre 2014 Invited: Salman Rushdie, Indo-British writer.