With his much awaited 12th novel out today, we bring you Rushdie’s hilarious exchanges with some of his moronic Twitter followers
Salman Rushdie, whose 12th novel Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights is out today, has more than a million followers from around the world on Twitter. But for some strange reason, south Asians, particularly Indians, feel compelled to periodically ask him stupid questions, many of them in bad English. And they are invariably met with a typically Rushdie riposte — pithy, acerbic, scornful and always funny. Here are some of best exchanges:
Rushdie’s definition of piracy