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Rushdie is poor, sub-standard writer: Katju
Wednesday January 25, 2012 08:49:06 PM,
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New Delhi: A day after Salman Rushdie's video conference at Jaipur Literature Festival
was cancelled, Press Council of India chairman Markandey Katju
Wednesday said the author is a "poor" and "sub-standard writer"
who would have remained largely unknown but for his controversial
book "The Satanic Verses".
"Salman Rushdie dominated the Jaipur Literature Festival. I do not
wish to get into the controversy whether banning him was correct
or not. I am raising a much more fundamental issue," he said in a
statement here.
"I have read some of Rushdie's works and am of the opinion that he
is a poor writer, and but for 'Satanic Verses' would have remained
largely unknown. Even 'Midnight's Children' is hardly great
literature," Katju said.
"I am not in favour of religious obscurantism. But neither do I
wish to elevate a sub-standard writer into a hero."
Katju, a former judge of the Supreme Court, decried the admirers
of the India-born author now based in Britain, saying they
suffered from "colonial inferiority complex" that a writer living
abroad has to be great.
"The 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.
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