domingo, setembro 19, 2004
Rushdie turns India's air blue
By Siddharth Srivastava
NEW DELHI - From time to time, Indian author Salman Rushdie stirs reactions that are unrelated to the books he writes. Earlier there was a death sentence for insulting a prophet, a couple more novels that did not match his earlier brilliance, then a third wife - a model two-and-a-half decades his junior - with whom he makes his way through the party circuit around the world, and now his take on porn, which has set off debate in this country, and elsewhere.
This time Rushdie has again risked the fury of Islamic clerics, as well as Christians, by arguing that a free society should be judged by its willingness to accept pornography. In his pornography-praising essay titled "The East is Blue", which is to be published alongside images of US porn stars in a book called XXX:30 Porn Star , he implies that Muslims are avid consumers of pornography because of the sex segregation they have to endure. Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, the book's photographer, said in an interview that Rushdie supports this argument with statistics about the volume of porn traffic on the Internet in Pakistan.
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By Siddharth Srivastava
NEW DELHI - From time to time, Indian author Salman Rushdie stirs reactions that are unrelated to the books he writes. Earlier there was a death sentence for insulting a prophet, a couple more novels that did not match his earlier brilliance, then a third wife - a model two-and-a-half decades his junior - with whom he makes his way through the party circuit around the world, and now his take on porn, which has set off debate in this country, and elsewhere.
This time Rushdie has again risked the fury of Islamic clerics, as well as Christians, by arguing that a free society should be judged by its willingness to accept pornography. In his pornography-praising essay titled "The East is Blue", which is to be published alongside images of US porn stars in a book called XXX:30 Porn Star , he implies that Muslims are avid consumers of pornography because of the sex segregation they have to endure. Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, the book's photographer, said in an interview that Rushdie supports this argument with statistics about the volume of porn traffic on the Internet in Pakistan.
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