Salman Rushdie warns against threats to freedom of expression

Booker Prize-winning author Salman Rushdie has warned of “worrying” threats to freedom of expression across the world, including in India. Rushdie said this while accepting the ‘Freedom to Publish’ award at the ‘British Book Awards’ in London. In a video message released from New York on Monday night, the 75-year-old Mumbai-born author said it was important to fight for freedom of expression. Rushdie has been under the shadow of a fatwa since the publication of The Satanic Verses in the 1980s. staying.

Rushdie was attacked with a knife in August last year. In his first public address after the attack, Rushdie said, “We live at a time when freedom of expression, freedom of publication has never been in such danger in the countries of the West in my lifetime.” Said, “Obviously, there are parts of the world where censorship has been there for a long time, a lot of parts of the world – Russia, China, in some ways even India. Although in Western countries, until recently, there was a fair amount of freedom in publishing.” He said, “Now I sit here in America, I see an extraordinary attack on children’s books in libraries and schools, an attack on the very idea of ​​libraries. want to see. This is remarkably worrying and we need to be very aware of it and fight strongly against it.

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