Crossword shut down a book account afterwards Gul Panag and ambassador Ashok Pandit got into a shouting match. They were debating on Varon B K Sharma's The Assassination Of George Bush, if the accountable confused assimilate terrorism.

Scream Fest: Gul Panag

Pandit, who is a displaced Kashmiri, attacked Panag's appearance that the basis causes of terrorism, like poverty, bare to be looked at.

Pandit said, "If that was the case, every poor being would aces up a gun and alpha killing people."

Panag said that she was no armchair activist. "I am able-bodied abreast with facts and accepted affairs," she said.
"My dad, Lt General Panag was administrator of arctic command, so I apperceive what agitation is about. I agreed with Ashok that we should atrociously drove terrorism, but I added that we should aswell appraise the causes. Why are the poor demography to the gun? It's not just Kashmir but aswell Assam, South India and added areas of India.”

It was then, she said, that "Ashok butted in saying, what rubbish! Why are you answer killing?"
Panag said she did not see the "vicious aeon of killing catastrophe unless we don't investigate why it's happening. They don't accept food, jobs."

"I said the Muslim citizenry of our country is 12-13 per cent but the representation of Muslims in accessible casework like Army, Parliament, Railways are beneath 3 per cent. To that Ashok said something like 'If they wish they can accept it differently.' That absolutely agitated me! How can an accomplished being allocution like that?"

Pandit said in his defence that he could "not accept to the aureate accent of peace."

"Mahesh Bhatt started the altercation by talking about why terrorists behave like that and we should amusement them with love, amore and sympathy. Being a Kashmiri and a victim of agitation for endure 20 years, I said all terrorists should be dead as they don't accept peaceful language."

The book they were debating, or were declared to be debating, was Varon BK Sharma's The Assassination Of George Bush. Sharma said, "It was a acrimonious agitation but if it was accustomed to abide it could accept angry uglier. That's why the Crossword guys bankrupt it up."

Suchitra Pillai and Shefali Absolutist were aswell present.