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Our colonial mentality made Rushdie a great writer Empty Our colonial mentality made Rushdie a great writer

Post by Guest Tue Mar 27, 2012 3:55 pm

Press Council of India chairman Markandey Katju has blamed the 'colonial inferiority complex' of Indians as the reason for making a 'poor' and 'substandard' Salman Rushdie a great writer.
"Whole problem with the so-called educated Indians of today is that they still suffer from the colonial inferiority complex. So whoever lives in London and New York must be a great writer, while writers living in India are inferior," Katju said in a statement.
"I have read some of Rushdie's works and am of the opinion that he is a poor writer, and but for 'Satanic Verses' (he) would have remained largely unknown. Even 'Midnight's Children' is hardly great literature," he said.
On the controversy surrounding Rushdie during the Jaipur Literary Fest that ended Tuesday, Katju said: "I am not in favour of religious obscurantism. But neither do I wish to elevate a sub-standard writer into a hero."

http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/NewDelhi/Salman-Rushdie-is-poor-sub-standard-writer-Katju/Article1-802015.aspx

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