In this article in the The Telegraph of Kolkata he makes the off the cuff reference:
And what can we make of this remark? A lot indeed. This is the typical attitude of modern Indian intelligentsia. Only worsted by the attitude of the Sangh Parivar.
Then he stayed conspicuously silent when the Deoband mullahs issued a fatwa against Salman Rushdie, lest he, and the Congress, be seen as ‘anti-Muslim’.The silent man in this context if Rahul Gandhi.
And what can we make of this remark? A lot indeed. This is the typical attitude of modern Indian intelligentsia. Only worsted by the attitude of the Sangh Parivar.