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Meet Negin Bhatt: Salman Rushdie Mother

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Sarah Silva

Updated on February 13, 2026

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Meet Negin Bhatt: Salman Rushdie Mother – Salman Rushdie is an Iconic Indian-born British-American novelist who married Four-times. 75 years old literary giant was married to Padma Lakshmi, Clarissa Luard, Marianne Wiggins, and Elizabeth West.  His work often combines magical realism with historical fiction and primarily deals with connections, disruptions, and migrations between Eastern and Western civilizations, set on the Indian subcontinent. Salman was born in Bombay on 19 June 1947 during the British Raj, into an Indian Kashmiri Muslim family. He was the son of Anis Ahmed Rushdie his father and Negin Bhatt his mother.

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Salman Rushdie is the son of Ahmed Rushdie the father and Negin Bhatt the mother.

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Negin Bhatt is the mother of literary giant Salman Rushdie, who was married to Cambridge-educated lawyer Anis Ahmed Rushdie. Salman’s mother, Negin, was a teacher. Zafar Rushdie and Milan Rushdie are the Grand Children of Negin Bhatt.

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