Descent Of A Man is the Outlook magazine cover, which says that Mr Singh is piloting a "sinking ship".

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"I sometimes become the inadvertent object of political leaders who choose to make me a symbol of all that they think is wrong and unpatriotic about Muslims in India, " the actor wrote in Outlook Turning Points, published by India's Outlook magazine in association with the New York Times.

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The actor wrote in Outlook Turning Points - published by India's Outlook magazine in association with the New York Times - that sometimes he became the "inadvertent object of political leaders who choose to make me a symbol of all that they think is wrong and unpatriotic about Muslims in India".

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