NEW DELHI – Actor Aamir Khan joined the chorus of intelligentsia against the growing intolerance, saying he has been “alarmed” many incidents and his wife Kiran Rao even suggested that they should probably leave the country.
He virtually supported those returning their awards, saying one of the ways for creative people to express their dissatisfaction or disappointment is to return their awards. “I feel that the sense of insecurity and fear has been growing in the past six or eight months,” he told an audience at the Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Awards that included Information & Broadcasting Minister Arun Jaitley.
“When I sit at home and talk to Kiran, she says ‘should we move out of India?’ That’s a disastrous and big statement for Kiran to make. She fears for her child. She fears about what the atmosphere around us will be. She feels scared to open the newspapers every day.”
