
On his facing a case filed against him along with three other authors for reading out portions of Salman Rushdie’s Satanic Verses during last year’s lit fest,
Mohammed Iqbal, in: "Jeet Thayil wins DSC Prize for South Asian Literature"
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On his facing a case filed against him along with three other authors for reading out portions of Salman Rushdie’s Satanic Verses during last year’s lit fest,
Mohammed Iqbal, in: "Jeet Thayil wins DSC Prize for South Asian Literature"
“Elegance is a small price to pay for enlightenment, and I was glad to pay it.”
Source: Hainish Cycle, The Left Hand of Darkness (1969), Chapter 8 “Another Way into Orgoreyn” (p. 118)
“The only true test of friendship is the time your friend spends on you.”
Source: Circle of Flight
Source: On the Jellicoe Road
“It is blood alone that can pay the price of freedom. Give me blood and I will give you freedom!”
Speech in Burma (July 1944) as quoted in The Great Speeches of Modern India (2011) by Rudrangshu Mukherjee