Danish gift to a scheming bigot While there is now a move to defuse the Muslim infuriation over the blasphemous depiction of the Prophet Mohammed in a Danish newspaper, an Indian politician, Yaqoob Qureshi, is collaborating with the Muslim votebank politics of Mulayam Singh Yadav. By breathing fire and placing a bounty on the head of the cartoonist, Qureshi has played into the hands of those who want to portray the entire Muslim community as
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H Y Sharada Prasad A Nieman Fellow at Harvard, he served as information Advisor to Prime Ministers Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi. He was formerly a trustee of IGNCA and chairman of NID.
Syeda S Hameed is a Member of the Planning Commission. She is the founder member of Muslim Women's Forum and a founder trustee of the Women's Initiative for Peace in South Asia.
Cmde C Uday Bhaskar is deputy director of the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, New Delhi.
Paranjoy Guha Thakurta a veteran journalist and commentator, is
currently Director, School of Convergence, New Delhi.
While there is now a move to defuse the Muslim infuriation over the
