‘I can see the double standard here,’ Shabana Azmi snapped. ‘Muslims say they are proud to be Muslim, Christians say they are proud to be Christian, Sikhs say they are proud to be Sikh, and Hindus say they are proud to be … secular.’ All right, Shabana Azmi didn’t really say it. Not as Shabana Azmi: she was on stage in New York’s New School University auditorium, reading lines I wrote in my novel Riot,
