Salman Rushdie is a Mumbai born internationally renowned essayist and author of fiction, most of which is set on the Indian subcontinent. He first achieved fame with his second novel, Midnight’s Children (1981), which won the prestigious Booker Prize, and his ongoing literary output has continued to receive critical acclaim and commercial success.
Mr. Rushdie says his personal identity remains wedded to India and he always roots for the Indian team’s win in a cricket match. 
Thank you very much sir, for your comment and not forgetting your roots.
He is in India to speak at the Virasat literary festival in Jaipur told TV news channel NDTV 24×7 that coming back to this country was still special:
For me its always, you know, it’s like drinking at the well. Every so often you have to come to the well to drink.
