'The sense of being alien in your own world'

‘I do feel that the world in which I grew up and have lived all my life is ending. And that's true in all the countries that I've cared about in my life and written about: India, England and here. What I thought was the given, how the places worked, has changed in all three cases. I guess it is a characteristic of old age, that you begin to have the sense of being alien in your own world.'

Salman Rushdie, author of Midnight's Children, The Satanic Verses, Quichotte and Shame in The Times