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is suggesting that the fervent devotion with which Muslims and Hindus alike adore Kashmir has backfired to make it a nightmarish battlefield. Its very sacred beauty has made it cursed. One story from the “West” section of the collection, “At the Auction of the Ruby Slippers” (Granta, April 1992), is especially interesting because Rushdie was enthralled at an early age by viewing the classic movie of The Salman Rushdie: East, West (1994) 143 Wizard of Oz, and he has often connected Dorothy’s

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