Salman Rushdie’s 1981 novel Midnight’s Children (Jonathan Cape) was recently announced winner of the Best of the Booker award, a celebratory honor given to mark the fortieth anniversary of the Man Booker Prize. Rushdie’s novel about the birth of India won the Booker Prize in 1981, and received a second honor, the Booker of Bookers, during the twenty-fifth anniversary of the award in 1993.

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Salman Rushie, poster child for my long-held maxim, Nobody has the right not to be offended. I wonder if he can go outside yet, without fear of death. I hope so. Meanwhile, practicing a religion still seems to mean having the right to be offended by other people’s thoughts.

So it goes, we make what we made since the world began.