Midnights Children

Off-centre | The attack on Rushdie is a wake-up call to unite against religious violence

An end to religiously inspired or justified violence the world over is a prerequisite for human peace, progress, and unity

'Champion of good books, and a more humane culture': Sonny Mehta, Knopf Editor, remembered by his writers

Sonny Mehta, the Indian-born, Cambridge-educated editor who for more than 30 years presided over Alfred A Knopf and the New York publishing scene with seemingly effortless grace and erudition, died Monday at 77

Midnight's Children: Vishal Bhardwaj reveals his Netflix adaptation of Salman Rushdie's novel has been put on hold

Vishal Bhardwaj was roped in to serve as the showrunner of Netflix's adaptation of Midnight's Children.

Quichotte book review: Salman Rushdie struggles to bring the sprawling satire to life

Rushdie has continued in quasi-fantastic, magical-satirical vein but his new novel Quichotte is a development in that it is not positioned as magical realism but explicitly as satire. Whatever ‘magic’ is in evidence is decidedly authorial conceit.

Booker Prize Shortlist 2019: Salman Rushdie, Margaret Atwood among authors nominated for literary honour

Former Booker winners Salman Rushdie and Margaret Atwood are in the running for the literary honour for Quichotte and The Testaments respectively.

Booker Prize Longlist 2019: Margaret Atwood, Salman Rushdie among those nominated for literary award

Also nominated for the Booker is Lucy Ellmann for Ducks, Newburyport which consists of a single sentence, a stream-of-consciousness written over a 1000 pages.

On Salman Rushdie's 71st birthday, the most striking lines from Midnight's Children author's oeuvre

Midnight's Children won Salman Rushdie the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 1981 and it was termed as 'the best novel of all winners.'

Sacred Games season 2 stakes seem higher as Netflix invests heavily in India with Mowgli, Narcos: Mexico

With Narcos: Mexico, Mowgli, Sacred Games 2, Midnight's Children and the like, Netflix seems to be expanding its content base and market in India.

Vishal Bhardwaj to serve as showrunner of Netflix's adaptation of Salman Rushdie's 1981 novel Midnight's Children

Vishal Bhardwaj will also executive produce of Netflix's Midnight Children.

Netflix to adapt Salman Rushdie's celebrated 1981 novel Midnight's Children into original series

Netflix has announced that it will be creating an original series based on Salman Rushdie's seminal novel Midnight's Children