Salman Rushdie takes Imran Khan to task for skipping India Today Conclave 2012
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- Опубликовано: 26 июн 2024
- Salman Rushdie during the last session titled 'Liberty Verses: I am What I am and That's All That I am' of the India Today Conclave in New Delhi on Saturday, March 17, 2012.
Salman Rushdie slammed Pakistan's cricketer-turned politician Imran Khan for skipping the India Today Conclave.
At the Conclave, Salman Rushdie hints at a "physical resemblance between Imran Khan and Muammar Gaddafi"
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people like rushdie are the last hope for muslims
yes. not the last there are a few more like him. slowly the number is growing. High hopes
I would rather be a fan of Salman Rushdie than Salman Khan
Rushdie's open mind and frankness is what others should adopt 👍
This is epic roasting! Well done, Sir!
india is a free country ...you may not agree with him but he has a right to his opinion
Ramakrishnan Raghavan That seems increasingly not the case. Your comment, which is laced with some feigned sense of patriotism, provides for nothing but a momentary cheap thrill of moral superiority. As Salman rushdie rightly pointed out, out historical roots of tolerance are increasingly under threat in the face of political opportunism, religious high-jacking of power systems and general social unwillingness to tolerate the different. Everywhere you see appeasement politics, stifling of expression, and the brutality of authority.
Yes, we are better than the failed state of Pakistan on this front, but is that saying much at all. The point is that increasingly, freedoms are being wiped out in the name of 'offence', culture and legal jargon. India is heading down a path with a dark ending. This country is just too incompatible for authoritarian ideas.
why do you kill people who eat beef why don't you protect their freedom to eat beef.
That's what I keep telling my friend
Ram Raghavan we have a right to eat beef
Ram Raghavan let's eat beef?
salman just nailed it... Imran would have died watching it
he is bastid learner although greatmanto pakistani is master :)
It was wrong for India to ban his book. It's wrong to ban ANY book, however unpalatable we may find it, however it may offend us. In return, we have the freedom to criticize it, bash it as much as we want, offending the writer or his book in the process. That's true freedom of speech & expression.
+Bruce Wayne At least you got a leader with balls now, but I doubt even he can do much.
Ms Sandhu Sorry, Europeans may have hate speech laws, but we are not bowing down as much as India has, though I don't blame the Indian people, I blame the Indian government (INC, not BJP) and hate speech is targeted at speech directly aggravating violence, and not sheer criticism of religion, which Indians have falsely identified as hate speech.
Every takes the piss out of the pope here, but I literally just saw a news article pop up about some indian actor accidentally referring to the pope in a negative context and he got called out by the government or some non-sense.
Bruce Wayne Yeah everyone takes a piss out of the Pope in Europe.. but try that with Muhammad, or Islam, then you get Charlie Hebdo type attacks, all the while the politically-correct trying to half-justify such attacks with statements like, "of course if you insult religious sentiments of people, such reactions would happen". I am sorry, but Europe is NOT a whole lot better than India when it comes to the appeasement of Islam & Muslims. I sure wish it were... freedom of speech should be absolute, and it should include the freedom to offend.
and thanks to Merkel and co you have created a frankenstein in the form of all the refugees from Syria.
other religion people r not even allowed to visit mecca or medina. Islam has Jordan. of Christian
ram janam. booming a holy place of hindus converted to mosque. Hindus cannot even pray their
the holy place of jews
in phelistine. has been converted to mosque. the jews can't pray their
mecca is satanic cult to
demolish other religion
it is dangerous
mecca is an icon that states that mohammad had war. killed his relatives and beheaded them and distroyed their faith in God that was prayed in the form of figures . and after war by force converted them to follow him
Good for Rushdie. He didn't have to do this. It takes balls to break the rules.
loser
Only not too far ago when his satanic verses book came out he was shaking in his shoes
thank you so much salman for coming back home. i felt truly shameful about what happened to you in jaipur. i am so happy that you have come and placated some of the guilt i have felt. u have been immensely gracious. thank you.
One of the greatest thinkers of all time. Great how he highlighted how threatened all artists feel in India. It's a dangerous, horrible, shameful, unfortunate and highly regrettable situation, and it has to change for the better. We have to admit what is shameful about us and pledge to change, to better ourselves and to find the courage to be stronger. Public apathy has to go and those who practise violence have to know that they, in fact, are the minority. Wish I were as articulate as he is.
Salman -- thank you for a splendid speech, we needed that -- we need people with open minds. "your offensiveness defines you" so true. Bravo
yo so secular the liberal fascist
Yeah.. anyone who spreads poison these days is so open minded..lol
OMG Such amount of intellect. Wow
he is amazing.
If you don't defend it, you loose it. The freedom you get is what you demand and what you neglect is lose, forever. Wonderful! You are one of enlightenment cannon!
no truer words spoken. We are seeing how our freedom has been gradually eroded under RSS-BJP
"Keeping 'those' balls in air....." - Killer!
Such a dull audience, they really didn't deserve to be in that audience when a person of Salman Rushdie's intellect speaks.
Maybe they were just afraid. Which is sad, TBH.
Salute to this man.
U gay?
Charles Darwin
yup
+chocoboyc Awesome !!! Really these are the things that need to be said and heard..:)
fantastic speech, Mr. Rushdie.... A slap on the face of fundamentalists...
It is by human nature and psychology that human is very emotional.It is natural in humans as they have serotonin and endorphins, which regulate emotions. I would like to give an example that when female gives birth, and you take her baby away from her or disturb that baby, would she not get offended? when someone abuses your parents would you not be offended. There are many other examples, People should not be adamant, they should be flexible enough to realize that would not our speech hurts any community's sentiments.You should present your point of view but should not disgrace anybody from your freedom of speech. Everybody knows that Muslim populace revere their religion more than any other community. Thus, as a human being it is the responsibility of each individual to adore and respect muslims love towards their religion. Muslims only demand that nobody should disrespect or disgrace their religion as it hurts their feelings on the basis of freedom of speech. It is also universal law that nobody should hurt anybody's feelings by his power of speech. Hence, anybody hurting any community's sentiments on the basis of freedom of speech is not legitimate or either it must be not permissible. I hope United Nations would define the full meaning and code of conduct of this right of freedom of speech in future.
mind blowing speech.....
good speaker and a terrific writer!!
Great, you will always be a great writer and thinker, no matter what all the people talk about you, no matter how many foolish people stand against you....you will be always be a great writer. Above all you will be always a Indian.
long live freedom of speech!..
how is it going now
Nothing
@@aditya_saha nothing.
Wow loved the roasting of Chetan Bhagat, he took it well though ;)
Excellent speech... Great Personality.....Highly knowledgeable...
Satanic Verses , a book bought by many , read by none , making its never known before crap writer wealthy.............at a time when it was beginning to be fashionable to lie about WMD and Islam bashing was made popular sport ............ Jew hating and Jew bashing during 1930s, 40s Europe had become a sport .....Only the victims are changed
sukuvar no
یہ گشتی عورت کا بچہ ہے حرامی خنزیر جہنم کا ملازم ہے
"Humans essentially are language animals. Without it they are nothing...language itself is liberty...please do not let the battle be lost." Amazing!!!
I agree with every single thing this man has said, these are the people of today, the people of now !
Salman Rushdie is the BEST.... and he speaks the truth....
Salutes this mam...... He know ik future so clearly....
Awesome! Simply awesome. Salman Rushdie needs to visit India more often, just to remind us, how far this drift is taking us. Thank You Sir.
Coming back to listen to it again after 11 years. The Indian voters failed us. The battle was lost and Indians are destined to suffer much longer.
this man makes so much sense...respect
"THIS IS WHAT WE CALL THE EXCISE OF FREEDOM OF SPEECH"
I love rushdie....his thoughts are so clear and modern
I love rushdie too for his intellect and wit. But by NO means are these values 'modern'. As he himself suggested ideas of freedom and tolerance have long existed in this subcontinent. They have been given even clearer form in Europe in the enlightenment era. Stories from my grandfather have made it clear to me that in India we are losing these values decade by decade. We are succumbing to the propaganda of political opportunists, who like ever are using the concept of divide and rule to secure vote banks.
You see states separating, protectionist polices being formed in the name of caste, creed or religion, a far cry from our roots of secularism. Worse yet, all this demagogic work is being done in the name of pluralism and people are just buying into it.
Yes Bloodiest Mary
Opportunist leaking Mary
Did Christ have a go at Bloody Mary.. Check yet mail
Joan of Arc was toasted with Danish butter and the Pope enjoyed tasting Bloody Mary...
If you could point out exactly when, where, and how Rushdie allegedly "caused pain to billions of people" I'd be very grateful.
He is truly the father of the contemporary journalism.A big king he is.
Rushdie ,perhaps by default has become a true hero for those who value freedom.
Now, this is class!! Love his personality... Salman rocks...!!!
So true of Pakistan today under Imran Khan.... prophetic words a nd Vision of Salman Rushdie !!!🙏🙏🙏🙏
Who said it's true in today's pakistan????????????
changed my point of view about a few things. thanks.
well spoken Mr Rushdie, hope Imran is listening.
feels good ! thank you salman , thank you
Wonderful Speech.
Patriotic and bold . India needs many rushdies .
India is with you , you made our nation proud.
So true and so succinct. I always thought that we as Indians were famously tolerant and naturally argumentative in a relaxed and logical setting. Somehow we have forgotten our own great qualities and feel the need to defend our supposed cultural purity with a threat of violence and shaming. We were supposed to encourage all schools of thought and all world views to grow and blossom without being afraid of somehow losing our cultural and national identity. Is our identity so shaky and weak to be destroyed by any one person's voice that we need to strike him down immediately for fear of antagonizing others. Surely we are a far more resilient people after a millennium of influence from the outside world. We are still Indian and will only continue to do so by embracing every Indian's right to share his views without fear of retaliation or harm. We must protect all those in our country who have reason to feel cheated or treated unjustly regardless of how we may feel on that particular view. And surely, by now we all must see that religion is something so personal that there is no place for it to be thrust in the face of everyone around us and should remain only a personal guide to each person's personal development and happiness. Thank you Salman Rushide. You spoke beautifully.
Well said Sujay.
+omkar yadav I'm sorry my friend but you missed the point.
There is no point in pointing fingers. There is nothing great about any particular religion. You talked about Quran, kafir. Well, somebody will talk about "Manusmriti", Caste System, Sati Pratha.
As Salman Rushdie aptly put, man created a fiction to explain the unexplained at any point of time. e.g. At a point of time it was lightning in the sky, some other time it might be a big bang.
God, religion is all a work of fiction. Period.
The only religion is humanity.
Peace.
Of couse. We have one identity we r humans and humanity
@@rootkea Manusmruti is not religious text. Read book of romila thapar. It's a secular book- that means it was laws. Manu never said that it was law of Gods.
@@rootkea And Hinduism hasn't have one book, We have number of books and philosophy. Hinduism never said I am the truth. It's to search about truth. That's why we never had blasphemy laws. Christianity and Islam had.
What a super use of "Freedom of expression"
Hatred comments are expected from countries who didn't allow this fundamental right.
Hail India,
Hail Freedom of expression and speech.
Can someone mention who the woman at 24:52 is?
Love the book...midnight was awesome
welcome back home . Thankyou salman . India is with you.
This is the greatest speech on the india today conclave.
As an Indian long transplanted to the USA - and now an expat "American" living in SE Asia - one of the things I learnt in my long long long stay in New York was: "I may hate what you say but I will defend to the death your right to say it".
muslim hating him is a clear example how fucked up islamic ideology is and its follower are
I wish the title to the video was more apt so as to pool in more audience. In the era of censorship, violence & persecution, we need more tangible, scientific, articulated narrative of the need to fight for freedom of expression. Rushdie does a brilliant job in bringing out a scientific, nuanced approach to this otherwise taken for granted idea of "freedom of expression". Freedom is not a tea party, it is what you fight for ! Amazing
Wow! Ultimate and bold thinker..Need of the hour is freedom of speech and democracy
I lost myself after watching you.
Salman you are scintillating pole star of Indian born British American.
No word comes in my mind I am speechless 🔥
Salman Rushdie is the Mehdi the prophet came to reform and uplift Muslims. Every Muslim should follow him.
@lewanay2003 Are you saying that what was perceived as acceptable in the bronze age is valid now? Are you completely oblivious to the shift in moral zeitgeist?
What an awesome speech by Rushdie laced with insight and gentle humor! Truly a very smart man who could speak of the truth from his heart. Freedom in all its forms needs to be upheld and defended, no matter what, before we lose it all.
It is by human nature and psychology that human is very emotional.It is natural in humans as they have serotonin and endorphins, which regulate emotions. I would like to give an example that when female gives birth, and you take her baby away from her or disturb that baby, would she not get offended? when someone abuses your parents would you not be offended. There are many other examples, People should not be adamant, they should be flexible enough to realize that would not our speech hurts any community's sentiments.You should present your point of view but should not disgrace anybody from your freedom of speech. Everybody knows that Muslim populace revere their religion more than any other community. Thus, as a human being it is the responsibility of each individual to adore and respect muslims love towards their religion. Muslims only demand that nobody should disrespect or disgrace their religion as it hurts their feelings on the basis of freedom of speech. It is also universal law that nobody should hurt anybody's feelings by his power of speech. Hence, anybody hurting any community's sentiments on the basis of freedom of speech is not legitimate or either it must be not permissible. I hope United Nations would define the full meaning and code of conduct of this right of freedom of speech in future.
cant even walk the streets, bcoz he speaks the truth.
If nothing else, Rushdie is awesome at speaking his mind without any hesitation whatsoever. I'm glad that the whole literature festival fiasco has been put behind and forgotten. :) It really was a dark spot on Indian liberty/freedom.
Thank you Sir !
true freedom of speech
Salman Rushdie still holds an Indian Passport.
Why, exactly?
Damn that roast😂🤣😂🤣
He is an excellent defender of freedom of speech and has an acute and shrewd observation of cultural norms.
@Baadshahforever how do you know that? How many pakistanis have you met, talked to?
Great thoughts sir
Thanks Salman for the to be fluent speech
Thank you so much for uploading and sharing. Hope some religious bigots find enlightenment.
Wow, What A Great/ Fact Reply from Rushdie to Imran BS Khan.
Sir Rushdie jokingly stated in 2012, "if you're not offended, you're probably a liberal". Now, sadly in 2021 if you're not offended or sufficiently offended you're labeled something FAR, FAR worse.
Wisdom is a gift that must be shared. May Salman Rushdie continue to nourish the world.
Both Salmans of India are so f**kin awesome!!!
how?
who is the lady in the front row they are showing again and again????
brilliant
@amithbn Could you please tell me that what qualifies Rushdie to make such assessment. I didn't comment because I don't buy his views regarding freedom of speech.
is chetan bhagat there in the audience?
ya
Love you Salman Rushdie...
You are a great author. it's below your status to talk about another great man like that Sir Salman Rushdie.
Great and brave man .
18:55 ''our culture'....respect.
@lewanay2003 He expands the discussion of freedom of speech in every context it has been trampled upon in India. I guess you were sleepy or not paying attention. Better hit the replay button.
Note that he was allowed to come to India during Congress rule but not after 2014
Salman Rusndi one of the best intellectuals around and he should be free to express his views in India. I may not agree with him in many issues but that does not mean that I will stop freedom of speech..
.Hats off man !!!
salman rushdie is pride of india, exposed islam in front of the world
thescorpionking2020 he opposes all intolerance, including hindu hooliganism
When I was a child in school i came across a pretty poem titled 'the bluebell'. One of the verses in the poem read: "the thoughts of our hearts tinge our actions and stamp their reflection upon our faces". So true. Salman Rushdie looks so evil.
True
Brilliant!
Salman Looks Like Anupam Khers Younger Brother Raju Kher....
wats up wid d voice at 29:10
The book Satanic Verses is worth a read, I don't see why Khomeini was so offended because I never read anything which was offensive. He is an excellent orator with logical thinking.
@lewanay2003 It wasn't in response to anything here but a general remark having noticed a comment where you defend Sharia.
Excellent!
Salman Rushdie standing up for the freedom of speech thank Sir 📗❤️
immeasurable hurt....:)
Brilliant
Need to change the fashion of headlines.
One day India will wake up to the glorious truth of atheism and rationality.
I APPRECIATE HIS DARENESS
@lewanay2003 It wasn't his assessment alone but a general assessment that he talks about. He remarks that Imran was known as a dimwit. But haven't you also made an assessment yourself and what qualifies you to do so? In any case, he backs the assessment by highlighting numerous follies of Imran.