Indian Hero 10 - The magazine hails the controversial author Salman Rushdie as one who opened up a new universe by changing the way we tell stories and see the world around us. “The post-classical novel, the eruption of 21st century literary masala mixing, was set off by an Indian-born, English-speaking, overseas-based Muslim who came into the world, with characteristic prescience, at the very moment when India claimed its independence 59 years ago.”