The Free Radio by Salman Rushdie

1. The Free Radio
by
Salman Rushdie
Sem- II, Core – 3.
Sr Chandrodaya. J
Assistant Professor of English.
St Xavier’s College, Mahuadanr.
Nilamber-Pitamber University,
Latehar, Jharkhand.

2. Overview
Early Life & Education.
Literary Works
Awards and Honours
Criticism
Famous Quotes

3. Introduction About the Author
Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie was born
on June 19, 1947 in Bombay (now
Mumbai), India.
Salman Rushdie is an Indian-born
British Writer.
The only son of a wealthy Indian
businessman and a school teacher in
Bombay.

4. • Rushdie was educated at a Bombay
private school before attending The Rugby
School, a boarding school in
Warwickshire, England.
• He was educated at Rugby School
and the University of Cambridge, where
he received an M.A. degree in history in
1968.

5. After earning his M.A. from
Cambridge, Rushdie briefly lived with his
family in Pakistan, where his parents had
moved in 1964.
There, he found work as a television
writer but soon returned to England, where
for much of the 1970s he worked as a
copywriter for an advertising agency.

6. Rushdie has been
married four times and is
the father of two sons, Zafar
born in 1979 and Milan
born in 1997.

7. His first published novel,
appeared in 1975.
Midnight’s Children
Rushdie’s next novel in 1981,
a fable about modern India, an
unexpected critical and popular success
that won him international recognition.
Notable works
Grimus,

8. The third popular novel
in1983 based on contemporary
politics in Pakistan.
Published In 1988, a novel
drenched in magical realism and
was inspired by the life of
Muhammad.
Shame
The Satanic Verses,

9. Imaginary Homelands (1991)
- a collection of essays and criticism;
Haroun and the Sea of Stories (1990)
- the children’s novel
East, West (1994)
- the short-story collection The Moor’s
Last Sigh (1995).

10. •The Ground Beneath Her Feet (1999)
•Fury (2001).
•Step Across This Line- a collection of
essays he wrote between 1992 and
2002
•Shalimar the Clown (2005)
•The Enchantress of Florence (2008) -
based on a fictionalized account of
the Mughal emperor Akbar.

11. •Luka and the Fire of Life (2010)
•Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-
Eight Nights (2015)
•The Golden House (2017),
• Quichotte (2019)
•Memoir Joseph Anton
(2012)

12. Awards and honors
Rushdie received the Booker
Prize in 1981 for Midnight’s
Children.
This novel subsequently won the
Booker of Bookers in1993
and the Best of the Booker in
2008.

13. Rushdie's litany of honors and
awards are considerable,
including honorary doctorates
and fellowships at six European
and six American Universities.

14. In 2007 Queen Elizabeth
II knighted him- an honour
criticized by the Iranian
government and Pakistan’s
parliament.

15. In 2014 Rushdie was awarded
the PEN/Pinter Prize. Established in
memory of the late Nobel-Laureate
playwright Harold Pinter, the
annual award honors a British
writer for their body of work.

16. Rushdie’s fourth novel, The Satanic Verses,
encountered a different reception. Some of the
adventures in this book depict a character
modeled on the Prophet Muhammad and portray
both him and his transcription of the Qurʾān in
a manner that, after the novel’s publication in
the summer of 1988, drew criticism from
Muslim community leaders in Britain, who
denounced the novel as blasphemous.

17. Public demonstrations against the book
spread to Pakistan in January 1989. On
February 14 the spiritual leader of
revolutionary Iran, Ayatollah Ruhollah
Khomeini, publicly condemned the book
and issued a fatwa (legal opinion) against
Rushdie; a bounty was offered to anyone
who would execute him.

18. He went into hiding under the
protection of Scotland Yard, and—
although he occasionally emerged
unexpectedly, sometimes in other
countries—he was compelled to
restrict his movements.

19. To try and dial back the outrage,
Rushdie issued a public apology and
voiced his support for Islam. The heat
around The Satanic Verses eventually
cooled and in 1998, Iran declared it
would not support the fatwa.

20. Rushdie has also maintained a fiery
tongue and pen. He's been a fierce
defender of freedom of expression
and was a frequent critic of the US
led war in Iraq.
In 2008 he publicly
regretted his embrace of
Islam in the wake of
the criticism of The Satanic Verses.

21. Salman Rushdie quotes
 “Memory's truth, because memory has its own
special kind. It selects, eliminates, alters, exaggerates,
minimizes, glorifies, and vilifies also; but in the end it
creates its own reality, its heterogeneous but usually
coherent version of events; and no sane human being
ever trusts someone else's version more than his own.”
Midnight's Children

22. Salman Rushdie quotes
 “Free societies...are societies in motion, and with
motion comes tension, dissent, friction. Free people strike
sparks, and those sparks are the best evidence of
freedom's existence.”
 “A poet's work . . . to name the unnamable, to point
at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world
and stop it from going to sleep.”
The Satanic Verses

23. Salman Rushdie quotes
“The only people who see the whole picture,' he
murmured, 'are the ones who step out of the frame.”
The Ground Beneath Her Feet
“What's real and what's true aren't necessarily the
same.” Midnight's Children
“Most of what matters in our lives takes place in our
absence.” Midnight's Children

24. Salman Rushdie quotes
“No people whose word for 'yesterday' is the same as
their word for 'tomorrow' can be said to have a firm grip
on the time.” Midnight's Children
“The world, somebody wrote, is the place we prove real
by dying in it.” The Satanic Verses
“Realism can break a writer's heart.”
Shame

25. “Children are the vessels into which adults pour their
poison.” Midnight's Children
“Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to
speak it, and by doing so to make it true.”
The Satanic Verses
“Perhaps the story you finish is never the one you begin.”
Salman Rushdie
Salman Rushdie quotes