New Delhi: Salman Rushdie, winner of the prestigious Booker Prize, is once again in news for all wrong reasons.
This time he has couted controversy for using abusive language against Jnanpith award winning Marathi writer Bhalchandra Nemade.
Rushdie used the offensive language against Nemade after the Marathi author dismissing his work as lacking in literary merit after ‘Midnight's Children'.
Bhalchandra Nemade in a function had said, “What is so great about English? There isn't a single epic in the language. We have 10 epics in the Mahabharata itself. Don't make English compulsory, make its elimination compulsory."
Nemade is known to be a supporter of “nativism” and supports the idea of author writing in native language.
Nemade had described English as a “killer language” and said the primary and secondary education should be in mother tongue.
The 77 year old writer had got India's highest literary award for ‘Hindu: Jagnyachi Samrudhha Adgal', a magnum opus quartet.
