‘A poet’s work. To name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world and stop it from going to sleep.’  So says the irreverent, satirical poet Baal in The Satanic Verses.  What the storm over Salman Rushdie’s non-appearance at the Jaipur Literature Festival reveals is that too few people these days think like Baal. Rushdie was due to have attended the festival – which is quickly becoming one of the most important global literary […]

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