HOW SALMAM BECAME SALMAN RUSHDIE ?
"There is one character in 'Joseph Anton'who explains what may seem inexplicable to others in the life of Rushdie.The fiction began before the fictions."The first gift he received from his father,a gift like a message in a time capsule,which he did not understand until he was an adult,was the family name,"he writes in Joseph Anton.Rushdie was an invention by his 

father Anis,whose real name was Khwaja Muhammad Din Khaliqi Dehlavi,"a fine old Delhi name."Anis adopted the name Rushdie inspired by Ibn Rushd,the twelfth century Spanish -Arab philosopher known as Averroes to the western world."His son bore the name for two decades before he understood that his father,a true scholar of Islam who was also entirely lacking in religious belief,had chosen it because he respected Ibn Rushd for being at the forefront of the rationalist argument against Islamic literalism in his time; and twenty more years elapsed before the battle the battle over the Satanic Verses provided a twentieth-century echo of that eight hundred year old argument,"he writes. "At least he told himself when the storm broke over his head-'i am going into the battle bearing the right name.'From beyond the grave his father had given him the flag under which he was ready to fight,the flag of Ibn Rushd,which stood for intellect,argument,analysis and progress,for the freedom of philosophy and learning from the shackles of theology,for human reason and against blind faith,submission, acceptance and stagnation,"writes the memoirist.
[Salman Rushdie ;Joseph Anton-perhaps the only memoir written in third person by author himself about thrills and trauma orchestrated by extreme religious tyranny].