Salman Rushdie on Mythology and Interpretation

University Distinguished Professor Salman Rushdie participated in a class discussion of "The Moor's Last Sigh" led by Associate Professor of English Deepika Bahri with undergraduate students at Emory University on March 7, 2012. Here he responds to a question about the influence of mythology-Hindu, Greek, Roman, Nordic-on his writing. "In four or five sentences, you can tell these stories," he says. "And yet the incredible richness of those stories in terms of what they mean and what they show us about human nature is very valuable to the writer because you could inexhaustibly explore them."
The interdisciplinary course, "India Today: Economics, Politics, Innovation, and Sustainability," is supported by The Halle Institute for Global Learning (www.halleinstitute.emory.edu).

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By any chance is the full lecture available?

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Salman Rushdie is a very clever man and a great story teller and has a very fine brain. It's just such a shame that he never uses those qualities to celebrate some of the more positive aspects of the religion and culture from which his forefathers came from. Just some food for thought Salman

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Sid Smith :
The great imaginings of the Hindu tradition have surely, to a large degree, underpinned and fed Rushdie's creations. No shame there.

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Read Grimus, Rushdie's first novel. It's based on a Sufi story by Fariddudin Attar.