In effusive reward for Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, politician and writer Shashi Tharoor on Tuesday asserted that the “overdue” Nobel Prize shouldn’t be withheld any longer from the “greatest living Indian writer”.

Tharoor not too long ago completed the Mumbai-born writer’s newest novel, “Victory City”, which is predicated across the medieval metropolis of Hampi, the ruined web site in Karnataka of the Vijayanagara empire.

“I’ve just finished Salman Rushdie’s magnificent & magical “Victory City” — a fabulous recreation of the history of the Vijaynagar Empire through his magical-realist lens, brilliantly written as always, full of the verve and brio of a writer at the height of his powers,” Tharoor tweeted.

Styled as a translation of an historic epic, the novel is a story of a lady who breathes a fantastical empire into existence, solely to be consumed by it over the centuries.

Quoting the ebook’s final sentence “Words are the only victors”, the 67-year-old Congress chief, who’s a bestselling writer himself, mentioned the “wielder of these words is a victor too, and ‘Victory City’ is a triumph”.

He additional urged that it’s about time that the “greatest living Indian writer” will get the celebrated Nobel Prize.

“That overdue Nobel must not be withheld any longer to the greatest living Indian writer,” he added.

The novelist, who confronted dying threats for years after writing “The Satanic Verses”, was stabbed by a 24-year-old man on August 12 final yr, leaving him with life-threatening accidents.

Rushdie acquired the coveted Booker Prize in 1981 for “Midnight’s Children”. The novel additionally gained the Booker of Bookers and the Best of the Booker in 1993 and 2008, respectively.