Last week, when a grey-haired man wearing a blazer with chappals alighted from a cab in the foyer of a five-star hotel in Mumbai and announced he was Manohar Parrikar, the chief minister

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Salman Khurshid has for some time been the target of remarks like “dhoonda Musalman, mil gaya Salman”. This illustrates the crisis of the liberal Muslim in India today, caught