If it's bathos you want - and I suspect we are all bathos junkies in the end - nothing gives it to you quite like watching sport. Unless it's playing sport.Howard Jacobson
I have to say that after some initial resistance, I'm now a complete 'Game of Thrones' addict.Salman Rushdie
In the '50s, listening to Elvis and others on the radio in Bombay - it didn't feel alien. Noises made by a truck driver from Tupelo, Mississippi, seemed relevant to a middle-class kid growing up on the other side of the world. That has always fascinated me.Salman Rushdie
I've never seen anywhere in the world as beautiful as Kashmir. It has something to do with the fact that the valley is very small and the mountains are very big, so you have this miniature countryside surrounded by the Himalayas, and it's just spectacular. And it's true, the people are very beautiful too.Salman Rushdie
One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.Salman Rushdie