Salman Khurshid Alam Khan (born 1 January 1953) is an Indian politician, designated senior advocate, eminent author and a law teacher. He was the Cabinet Minister of the Ministry of External Affairs. He belongs to the Indian National Congress. He is a lawyer, and a writer who has been elected from Farrukhabad Lok Sabha constituency in the General Election of 2009.
Born in Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, he is the son of Khurshed Alam Khan a former Union Minister of External affairs, Government of India, and maternal grandson of Zakir Hussain, the third President of India.
He studied in St. Xavier's High School, Patna, Delhi Public School, Mathura Road, and college at St. Stephen's College, Delhi and St Edmund Hall, Oxford, Oxford, UK (B.A. (English and Jurisprudence), M.A., B.C.L.). He also taught as Lecturer in Law at Trinity College, Oxford.
Khurshid has been deeply involved in writing and acting in plays since his student days in Delhi and Oxford. He is the author of the play Sons of Babur, published by Rupa & Co., which has been staged, with Tom Alter in the lead role, at the Red Fort in Delhi.
Okayish book. A one time read. Its more of a historical analysis of the problems Muslims face in India and their prospective solutions. Khurshid could've done a lot better.
Misrepresented information, biased perspective, exaggeration of the problems of a particular community and downplaying any incidents caused by them. The book completely ignores the real ideology, expansionist mindset of Muslims and talks only about a idealised version
This book has clearly narrated about citizens of India of a kind of identity are becoming invisible. This will be a great loss to country. Now the responsibility of visible citizens is doubled to highlight invisible citizen to not get lost for being only visible for an uncertain duration for their turn of invisibility.