One of the things I've thought about 'Midnight's Children' is that it is a novel which puts a Muslim family at the centre of the Indian experience.
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If Woody Allen were a Muslim, he'd be dead by now.
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Everybody loves 'The Wire,' and I think it's okay, but in the end it's just a police series.
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Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.
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I think the veil is a way of taking power away from women.
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Speaking as somebody with three sisters and a very largely female Muslim family, there is not a single woman I know in my family or in their friends who would have accepted the wearing of a veil.
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