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We can pretend that China is not there. But China is there, and unless we put our economy on the right track, it is going to overwhelm us completely.


Salman Khurshid

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SALMAN KHAN What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second,...
SALMAN RUSHDIE If you look at Indian movies, every time they wanted an exotic locale, they would have a dance numbe...
SALMAN RUSHDIE I think that we live in a very timid age, and a part of our timidity arises from our unwillingness t...
SALMAN RUSHDIE I write books I'd enjoy reading, I'm the reader standing behind my shoulder.
SALMAN RUSHDIE It seems that the right of freedom of speech that was enshrined in numerous constitutions is now und...
SALMAN RUSHDIE Islam is unusual in that it's the only one of the great world religions which was born inside re...
SALMAN RUSHDIE It's Kennedy's war, Vietnam. Lyndon Johnson got all the flak, but it's Kennedy's war...
SALMAN RUSHDIE And now, as if to finish things off, the Himalayan winter is setting in, and the greatest calamity o...
SALMAN RUSHDIE As a writer, one of the things we all learned from the movies was a kind of compression that didn...
SALMAN RUSHDIE What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist
SALMAN RUSHDIE Have you noticed the physical resemblance between Imran Khan and Gaddafi? If you were making a movie...
SALMAN RUSHDIE Certainly, poverty and economic decline have a lot to do with the so-called rage of Islam. You'v...
SALMAN RUSHDIE I was close to getting married a long time ago. But it didn't happen, and since then it has not ...
SALMAN KHAN A poet's work is to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shap...
SALMAN RUSHDIE A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, sha...
SALMAN RUSHDIE Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.
SALMAN RUSHDIE If you're on a freeway and want to know if you're being followed, what you do is enormously ...
SALMAN RUSHDIE The older you get, the better you have to look, the higher you have to kick, the harder you have to ...
SALMAN KHAN If it is something that I want to do, then I don't think the audience will hate it. Unless I tur...
SALMAN KHAN In the real world, immeasurable hurt is caused by terrorists based in Pakistan who attack countries ...
SALMAN RUSHDIE When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy
SALMAN RUSHDIE Enjoy every ounce of your life, get high and be sincere to anybody that comes around you.
SALMAN ADITYA The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because ...
SALMAN RUSHDIE What I've always tried to find in my books are points at which the private lives of the characte...
SALMAN RUSHDIE wants the dreadful, wants to stare down the human race's worst-case scenarios.
SALMAN RUSHDIE Rohinton Mistry's celebrated novel 'Such a Long Journey' was pulled off the syllabus of ...
SALMAN RUSHDIE Meanwhile, it seems, the world is suffering from compassion fatigue,
SALMAN RUSHDIE I've never seen anywhere in the world as beautiful as Kashmir. It has something to do with the f...
SALMAN RUSHDIE The enemy for the fanatic is pleasure, which makes it extremely important to continue to indulge in ...
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