The week just gone by has not been kind to writers in, or of, the Indian subcontinent.
Salman Rushdie found himself on page one again, tabloid fodder of the choicest kind, as newspapers broke the news that he and Padma Lakshmi had split. (Padma Lakshmi is the model who has a great deal in common with Rushdie, being something of a writer herself: she once penned a cookbook.
Rushdie, never one to be outdone, immortalised his love in syrupy, adolescent prose in Fury. It