Salman Rushdie wooing Bollywood starlet Riya Sen!

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According to the report, the pair have been exchanging emails on a regular basis since January when they met in India through a common friend, and the author is also "pursuing" the 27-year-old starlet.

"We get on really well but we are just friends. I met him through a family friend. I have spoken to him a few times. I think when you are Salman Rushdie, you must get bored with people who always want to talk to you about literature. We did not talk about any of that," Sen was quoted as saying.

She has also confirmed that she was invited to New York but insisted: "No really, we are not an item." The controversial author of 'The Satanic Verses', who has been married four times, recently said that he did not think that marriage "is necessary".

"It's strange, given that I've been married four times but I actually don't think marriage is necessary. Girls like it, especially if they've never been married before -- it is the dress. Girls want a wedding, they don't want a marriage," he told a lifestyle magazine last month.

Rushdie's 'Midnight's Children' based loosely on India's independence, won him the prestigious 'Best of the Booker' title on Thursday

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