Salman Rushdie's Knighthood

I am rather ignorant of some of the more mainstream news items, and Salman Rushdie's knighthood was a very tiny blip on my radar..Until I read this satire by Sanjay Sipahimalini. In fact, when I started reading Sanjay's blog, I thought it was true - Naive me.

Anyway, Sanjay's blog focuses on ridiculing people who use stupidity as an excuse for their various moral causes. Here is an excerpt from his blog:

“Rushdie has discriminated against all of us,” said the President of the association. “His novel Midnight’s Children is a deliberate and wilful act of provocation that has hurt the feelings of those who were born at other times of the day.”All copies of Rushdie’s novel, the statement said, ought to be pulped and the remains mixed with glue to create papier-mâché toys for the children of the association’s members. This, said the statement, will help soothe sentiments.“Rushdie himself was not born at midnight,” said one of the members at a press conference called to announce the protest. “He is full of self-hate and has crossed over to the other side to belittle all of us. There is no doubt in anyone’s mind that the only reason he wrote the novel was to poke fun at people born during the day”. Cutting a large chocolate cake, he went on, “I myself was born at 4.15 p.m. and as a matter of fact today is my birthday, so all of you can leave your presents in the large box beside the exit”.

I still can't stop laughing. Sanjay, thank you for starting my weekend off with laughter!