“To all the people shouting obscenities at me for speaking my heart out, it saddens me to say you are only proving my point”.
Unperturbed by the stinging criticism from the BJP, and other Hindu groups over his remarks on the raging intolerance debate, actor Aamir Khan on Wednesday said he or his wife Kiran Rao had no intention of leaving India and his love for the country required no endorsements from anyone.
“First let me state categorically that neither I, nor my wife Kiran, have any intention of leaving the country. We never did, and nor would we like to in the future. Anyone implying the opposite has either not seen my interview, or is deliberately trying to distort what I have said. India is my country, I love it, I feel fortunate for being born here, and this is where I am staying,” said Mr. Khan in a statement that cited Rabindranath Tagore’s famous poem “Where the mind is without fear.”
Stating that he stood by his statements in his controversial interview made in Delhi during a journalism awards ceremony, an unfazed Khan said: “To all those people who are calling me anti-national, I would like to say that I am proud to be Indian, and I do not need anyone’s permission nor endorsement for that.”
source- thehindu
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