The Congress is repeating old mistakes by exploiting the Rushdie issue for electoral purposes
Playing With Fire
-The Times of India, January 23, 2012
The Rushdie affair might have set grave precedents for further public restrictions, fears the writer.
"Like in 1986-88, the Congress is sedulously promoting the idea of Muslim distinctiveness - institutionalising into permanency a legal separateness (in 1986) and a political separateness (now)"
Playing With Fire
-The Times of India, January 23, 2012
The Rushdie affair might have set grave precedents for further public restrictions, fears the writer.
"Like in 1986-88, the Congress is sedulously promoting the idea of Muslim distinctiveness - institutionalising into permanency a legal separateness (in 1986) and a political separateness (now)"