Salman Rushdie
Birth Name: Ahmad Salman Rushdie
Place of Birth: Bombay, India
Date of Birth: 19 June, 1947
Ethnicity: Indian (Kashmiri)
Salman Rushdie is an Indian and British novelist and essayist.
Salman was born in Mumbai, Bombay Presidency, India (then in British India), to Negin Bhatt and Anis Ahmed Rushdie. His family was Muslim, of Kashmiri descent. He has a son with his former wife, Clarissa Luard, and a son with his former wife, Elizabeth West.
Salman has lived in the U.K. and the U.S.
His father took the name Rushdie in honour of medieval Andalusian Arab polymath Averroes (Ibn Rushd).
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i can’t help myself but this guy looks pale and european
that area from eyes to mouth screams GERMAN
MY grand grandparents on maternal side were both from kashmir
they had been kashmiri and they had been blonde and blue eyed.
I always thought that kashmir was in pakistan area
i never understood why they had been so pale
what is the answer to those riddles about those people in that area ??
invaders? immigrants ?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_Kashmiri_descent_from_lost_tribes_of_Israel
CORRECTION: Rushdie was born in Bombay, not “Mumbai”, which didn’t exist at the time.
former Padma Lakshmi’s husband