Acclaimed Indian-origin writer Salman Rushdie has openly supported Vice President and current presumptive Democratic Presidential candidate Kamala Harris, stating that she is the only person who has the ability to stop Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump from dragging the US towards authoritarianism.
Rushdie made the comment at the South Asian Men for Harris, a 3-hour-long virtual event which took place on July 27.
Nine months after a near-lethal attack that left him debilitated and without vision in one eye, Booker Prize-winning author Salman Rushdie made his first appearance at the PEN Americas annual gala in New York City.
Salman Rushdie, who wrote his book ‘Satanic Verses’ in 1988, for which a death fatwa was issued against him by Iran’s leader Ayatollah Khomeni in 1989, was stabbed several times in western New York in August this year.
