Salman Rushdie won the Best of the Booker Prize to mark the 40th anniversary of one of the world’s most prestigious literary awards. Rushdie’s ‘Midnight’s Children’ won the Booker Prize in 1981, and the India-born writer was hot favourite to take the special award decided by the public in an online poll. Probably one of the most controversial and brilliant writers of our time, Rushdie has always been in news for his love for a good life and lovely ladies but has rubbed an awful lot of dangerous people (Ayatollah Khomeini for one) the wrong way by his book ‘Satanic Verses’.