For 10 points, name this Indian author of The Satanic Verses.
This author attacked The Far Pavilions and the Raj Quartet in an essay given the Orwell-inspired title "Outside the Whale". A novel by this man that opens in "the saddest of cities" is about the son of the "Shah of Blah", who meets Butt the Hoopoe and Iff the water genie. He described his life after publishing another of his books in the quasi-memoir Joseph Anton. This author of (*) Haroun and the Sea of Stories included the priestess Hind and the satirist Baal in a section of a novel focused on a prophet named Mahound. That novel opens with Gibreel Farishta and Saladin Chamcha falling from an exploding plane, and earned this man a fatwa from Ayatollah Khomeini. For 10 points, name this Indian author of The Satanic Verses.
This author attacked The Far Pavilions and the Raj Quartet in an essay given the Orwell-inspired title "Outside the Whale".
Salman Rushdie [or Ahmed Salman Rushdie]