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Salman Rushdie

"Sometimes we feel we straddle two cultures; at other times, that we fall between two stools."

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"Sometimes we feel we straddle two cultures; at other times, that we fall between two stools."

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"So India's problem turns out to be the world's problem. What happened in India has happened in God's name.The problem's name is God."
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