Browsing Tag: Salman Rushdie

I’ve read virtually everything by Salman Rushdie, and while I do find him to be a bit verbose, I have an immense amount of respect for the rebelliousness in both the content and style of his writing... He has been very outspoken with his criticism in both his fiction and non-fiction on Indira Gandhi, but have never before come across any of his writing where he even mentions the Sikhs...

But the figure that, so to speak, "gave me permission" to imagine her personality, to invent a woman painter at the very heart of modern art in India - to believe in the possibility of such a woman - was an artist I never met, who died tragically young, and whom I first encountered in a luminous painting by Vivan Sundaram, her nephew.