A certain primal and unthinking disgust has arisen in India with the thought of Fawad Khan cavorting in a Bollywood film juxtaposed against Pakistani militants entering Indian territory and killing Indian soldiers. First, the extreme version – Pakistan is a rogue state and all Pakistanis are terrorists, some actively so, others merely passively. Major premise – The terrorists in Uri were Pakistani; Minor premise – Fawad Khan is Pakistani; Inference – Fawad Khan is a terrorist. In the 1999 World Cup as Anil Kumble was cleaning up the Pakistani tail, Indian soldiers were dying in the Kargil war. It is a testament to the India we are currently building that an artist chooses nationalism over commitment to his art.

Source: Times of India October 25, 2016 20:31 UTC