The star of "Top Chef" is a star in the making, on the brink of becoming the Next Big Thing.

Pardon me while I get my celebrity crush on, but word has gotten out that Padma Lakshmi's three-year marriage to Salmon Rushdie is splitsville, and the "Top Chef" co-host is officially on the market.

With a price on Salmon Rushdie's head for simply writing a novel, where is the outcry in the Western media? "Soft bigotry" has silenced that outcry.

My take on Cat Stevens' affirmation of the death sentence of Salmon Rushdie. Now with new lyrics!

Salmon Rushdie wrote a sacriligious book that had Muhammed having detailed Homosexual sex with the Angel Gabriel. Just another game of "lets you and him fight!"

Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie (born 19 June 1947) is an Indian-British novelist and essayist. He first achieved fame with his second novel, Midnight's Children (1981), which won the Booker Prize. Much of his early fiction is set at least partly on the Indian subcontinent. His style is often classified as magical realism, while a dominant theme of his work is the long, rich and often fraught story of the many connections, disruptions and migrations between the East and the West.His fourth novel, The Satanic Verses (1988), led to protests from Muslims in several countries, some of which were violent. Faced with death threats and a fatwa (religious edict) issued by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, then Supreme Leader of Iran, which called for him to be killed, he spent nearly a decade largely underground, appearing in public only sporadically. In June 2007, he was appointed a Knight Bachelor for "services to literature", which "thrilled and humbled" him. In 2007, he began a five-year term as Distinguished Writer in Residence at Emory University.