Salman Rushdie = Over-rated?
Sameer asserts that Salman Rushdie is highly over-rated:
Salman is still riding on the reputation of Midnight’s Children, and the infamy afforded him by the fatwa. Most of his more controversial and mediocre books are not stocked in great numbers because there is no demand. Rushdie has been a has-been for two decades. To his credit, Salman Rushdie is a fairish Postmodernist writer because of the constant themes of coexistence on display in his many works. He aptly emphasizes the independence of local societies and human existence. That’s it. He is no genius.
