Saturday, November 28, 2015

Does Celebrities in India have freedom to express their opinion or not?

First Sharukh Khan and now Amir Khan came in the news for showing their concern over the situation of intolerance created in India.

Amir Khan Amir had attended the award function and there journalist asked him about his view for intolerance created in India.

Amir replied that his wife Kiran was concerned about the situation and sometimes asked that whether they could shift to another country. This statement was deliberately distorted by the media and many people started condemning Amir.

Amir further said that all those people who were calling him anti-national, he would like to say that he was proud to be Indian, and he did not need anyone's permission or endorsement for that.  He said that many people shouted obscenities at him for speaking his heart out, it gave him sad feeling that it only proved his point. The people who had stood by him, he would like to thank them.

Amir said that he would like to protect India, beautiful and unique country and would really stands for it. said that all Indians had the duty to protect India’s integrity, diversity, in its culture, languages, religion and history. India’s tolerance, love, sensitivity in its emotional strength.

I would like to end my statement with a poem by Rabindranath Tagore, it's a prayer really :

“Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high, Where knowledge is free, Where the world has not been broken up into fragments, by narrow domestic walls... Read More