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Farzana Versey:

How many of the children, of Indi-Pak parents, born outside India & Pakistan give a hoot about the the Gecko & the Iguana. One can almost date the writers who do not let go of the two stupids of the Saint-this & Taint-that crummy `educational` system.

What else do you expect from these Mcaulays` bastards. Please ignore the low-class broomhandlers. Leave their dirty work to the wretched progressives.

Muslims children born & bred in US, Europe and Canada have not been tainted by the colonial curse. They do not consider english-language `faarin-language` and attach not undue glamour to it.

Snap out of it----you bright muslim woman.

Very nice.

One of the best analysis I have ever read on Chowk.

I will take people like Arundhati Roy over people like Rushdie anyday (I haven`t read much of Naipul).

Rushdie, no doubt a brilliant writer, has tried to cash in too much on factually incorrect, self-serving controversy. He is like the mullah who gains political recoginition by making threatening statements about the West. He is the Fazl-ur-Rahman of the English literary circle.

Controversy, that cannot be backed by facts, should be discouraged, never encouraged. Yet the press and media thrive on controversy. Two middle of the road individuals trying to factually discuss history will never gain the advertisers` attention that a Rushdie and a Fazl will get by launching controversial missiles at each other.

Highlighting and respecting and even protecting (a la Roy) one`s heritage is a great quality. Using one`s heritage to sell books (rather than using one`s own writing ability and facts) is terrible. It is a sell-out.

But it works.

After all how many people, outside the those who follow English literature, know who Yann Mantel is? How many know much about Rohinton Mistry? Yet everyone knows Salman Rushdie - a writer who has done nothing more than the above two gentlemen, i.e. been nominated for or won a Booker. Why do so many more everyday people know him?

Because he marketed himself better......