India, April 12 -- Yunus faces mounting accusations of aligning with extremist forces, alienating traditional allies like India, and stoking regional tensions for political survival. Has the icon of empowerment become the architect of instability?

On 10th December 2006, accepting the Nobel Prize, Bangladeshi economist and businessman, Muhammad Yunus, said, "A human being is born into this world fully equipped not only to take care of him or herself, but also to contribute to enlarging the wellbeing of the world as a whole.

Some get the chance to explore their potential to some degree, but many others never get any opportunity, during their lifetime, to unwrap the wonderful gift they were born with." Less than twenty years later, Muhamma...