Making up story to discredit me: Shobhaa De

Mumbai: Responding to allegations made by former Pakistan High Commissioner to India Abdul Basit, that he influenced Shobhaa De’s writings on Kashmir, the columnist has called his statements “dangerous, malicious”. De said she is a patriotic Indian and feels “deeply insulted” by the claims made by Basit. In a video interview which surfaced on Twitter, Basit claims it became challenging for him to convince any Indian journalist to write an article in favour of Kashmir’s “self-determination”, until he met De.