Following the furore over his comment on ‘intolerance’, Aamir Khan has released his first statement to the media.
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.
Secondly, I stand by everything that I have said in my interview.
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.
To all the people shouting obscenities at me for speaking my heart out, it saddens me to say you are only proving my point.
To all the people who have stood by me, thank you. We have to protect what this beautiful and unique country of ours really stands for. We have to protect its integrity, diversity, inclusiveness, its many languages, its culture, its history, its tolerance, it’s concept of ekantavada, it’s love, sensitivity and 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, Where words come out from the depth of truth, Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection, Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way, Into the dreary desert sand of dead habit, Where the mind is led forward by thee, Into ever-widening thought and action, Into that heaven of freedom, my father, let my country awake.
Jai Hind.
Aamir Khan.
@aisha. First let me tell you that I always enjoy reading your fearless comments and always have back ups for them. Am a Hindu my dad eats beef mom does not. About those quotes yes it’s true they are there written. Vivekananda very true
Rantideva yes it’s true they slaughtered cows everyday. Hindu is very vast it has 4 groups unde. It and many superstitious beliefs. Agreed that this ban makes no sense. different camps from.mother root Hinduism. So it’s not wise to.put a ban as you said when almost 1/4 of people don’.eat meat here but rest do either secretly or openly. Thanks for the quotes I swear as,a Hindu was naive but I checked your points through goggle and everything is stated. Keep up with your one man army approach and another thing . Observed since youbreturnedvi hardly see words like koyla or akki fans making names on ajay. Have you ever whipped at them before? I guess so. all the best Doc
yes how is Deborah now hop she got better. Once again forget dislike. As most of them knows them but may be angry that a Muslim foreign girl is even bringing boxing punch packages. welcome too dear
@ bajirao – we indians dont saying that muslim should not pray to allah we are requesting dont eat cows because we are growing up by drinking their milk. They have same importence what mother has for us and if you muslim dont respect this oldest thought of veda and indian culture please go where you got your eating beef teachings why you came here to india. Those who supporting Aamir for non violence do they know what is meaning of non violence?
@Yuvraj oh ok acknowledged. Thanks I got my answer now. But then if sanscrit is that difficult and it has many meaning for a word then how do you know which group or school of thought is saying the truth n which isn’t. I knew it’s not everybody that will concur just wanted to know even in Hinduism you have many modes.
Then what about those verses ? The sources are in bracket it’s actually from a journal I copied them from.–About misconceptions in Hinduism(that was the topic. I just wanted clarification to be sure they are many school of thoughts in Hinduism itself.
Also what of the quotes from swami Vivekananda? The sources are indicated to in brackets. If he did not say that why excerpts “”?
Anys tanx for the clarification you gave me in a proper gesture n maturity above all explicitly unlike saying I made up false quotes ,am sure your eyes we’re the only ones to see me indicating the sources for each and where quotes are like 3 or 4 I indicated above in bracket the general book it’s said to be contained and volume cos even if a neutral person opens the source he will see everything there. Finally then how true is that king that slaughtered 2000 cows everyday to the extent the demi God’s came in disguise? Thanks though..knowledge is power and never be completed, you must get tips from other sources too thus this site is the best way to interact n share knowledge.
Only global megastar aamir khanrules Bollywood. He has billions of fans worldwide. No one can ever match him in fan following and popularity. 2 RS stars like srk and Salman are nothing in front of aamir khan in popularity and fan following. Aamir has billions of fans worldwide. Srk and Salman will need to take many many births to reach near megastar Aamir khan’s popularity. They can never be a real megastar like aamir khan.
If India truly was “INTOLERANT” then there would have been no khans in India let alone in Bollywood. And bollywood would have been ruled by Kumars and Kapoors….
Lol at all these khans who dared to ashame our beloved India , look what happened to them. They have been thrashed in every part of India, be it publicly or on twitter. It’s gonna get worse for them if they dont take it seriously now.
And hey moronic bolly fans just stick to your shitty bollywood movies because when it comes to politics you are as dumb as your favourite stars….
@ved bajirao fan hey dumbo don’t bring Modi in here… He has been elected by crores of true indian people not by bunch of khan fan girls or bhajirao morons….Modi is working relentlessly to make India the bestest and the greatest….No khans can match up to Modi as he is the real national hero, whereas the khans are reel heros who turned out to be real villians of India. Stop reading shitty bolly news and take the pain to read something about politics…..
And my message to the khans…”DONT SPIT IN THE PLATE YOU EAT FROM”
@ ayesha- how can you tell swami vivekanand cant made any mistake in understand any subject? my mind is open and i dont beleive anything after one hearing or reading. Without thinking i never aprove anything whether it is shiv puran or kuran. The words writen in book are teachings of writer its upon you how you can use these teachings for betterment of earth and universe but unfortunately we just think about humans only and hindu dharm is totally different. Dont read hindu topics on internet just read its book and then decide what is for betterment of earth -universe.
@ ayesha- how can you say swami vivekanand cant made any mistake in understand any subject? my mind is open and i dont beleive anything after one hearing or reading. Without thinking i never aprove anything whether it is shiv puran or kuran. The words writen in book are teachings of writer its upon you how you can use these teachings for betterment of earth and universe but unfortunately we just think about humans only and hindu dharm is totally different. Dont read hindu topics on internet just read its book and then decide what is for betterment of earth -universe.
@ aisha – and i dont think this is right place to arguement on religion please if you interested send me friend request on my facebook id Yuvraj kher profile pic is Salim khan’s statement on intolerence.
What are you talking about rantideva if anyone who is fasting for 42 days how can he eat cow. Dont misunderstand by words like vadhyate/ badhyate. Vadhyate means kill and badhyate means force.
Just type your questions on google search and you will find a site which starts from vedik word. If you asking about ved and religion i feel dayanand sarswati is better than vivekanand because vivekanand didnt beleive in religion.
This is the intolerance that aamir said
1. If air get polluted we have to say Its polluted and do the necessary things to purify, if country’s roads r not good we have to say and try to build it,that’s what aamir said from last few month’s intolerance level is very high why r u ppl nt try to understand or accept the fact and make thing correct????
Why u ppl not say like this when sadhvi, adityanath, togariah,amit mishra,Mohan bhagwat spreading hatred and make India intolerance place for example, India is Hindu rastra,himachal should be declared Hindu state,Muslims should not forget Gujarat, muzaffarnagar,a Lady journalist threatened for support beef ban to rape her,in everything go to Pakistan, we choose India over Pakistan at the time of partition we r against jinnahideology we gav blood in this country for freedom.
Prime minister humiliate by international media in UK infront of David Cameron, Barack Obama concerned over intolerance in India?
The name and atmosphere of the country has been destroyed by those fanatics people but u didn’t agitate against them who make iIndia from secular country to country of intolerance why?? R u wid them ? Stop those ppl wh r responsible for the situation that a country reputed person have to say all this
@ aisha – and i dont think this is right place to arguement on religion please if you interested send me friend request on my facebook id Yuvraj kher profile pic is Salim khan’s statement on intolerence.
What are you talking about rantideva if anyone who is fasting for 42 days how can he eat cow. Dont misunderstand by words like vadhyate/ badhyate. Vadhyate means kill and badhyate means force.
Just type your questions on google search and you will find a site which starts from vedik word. If you asking about ved and religion i feel dayanand sarswati is better than vivekanand because vivekanand didnt beleive in religion. Hope you understand.
@Karan M
Umm..okay 1st . Tanx . I am not here to become a celebrity I am already a professional in my field. Av been visiting indicine since 2012, esp to see trailers and buzz of ajay sir n hritik. But commented 2015. Am not here to whip r wateva you say anybody. If am wrong or I have some misconceptions I immediately apologyz. Yes they are certain ppl here I vowed not to reply them nor comment on their favourite actors blog (only 1 of the actors of the top 6 many know who). I like learning n expressing myself. Been watching Hindi movies as a kid and understand virtually 85% of whatever they say even broken hindi. So wen am free a little I visit indicine barring 2months ago wen I went for an assignment. But before I left I never crossed over your name or May be I have a blank picture of u. Pls pls don’t talk aboutt AD haters who gives him names I ignore now only wen appropriate to counter. I never whipped anybody n I will not. I only speak my mind! Pls just ignore dragging my name pls. Nice meeting you,but that comments makes no sense . If it was my class of people(high level of intellectualism I respect and we are close …@navin@hritik @arjun@tiger @sky @challa @babaji @eric and there was a particular dude but I hear my guys calling him chAmeleons fro t for Aamir,so he his been deleted. Yes I won’t mind them pulling my name but a stranger I don’t know and want to put me in trouble with other dumb fans that I don’t like. Thanks though.
Tanx for remembering Deborah. She couldn’t make it.was to late and ,felt so dejected knowing I am a cardiologist but cldnt save the poor girl. Thanks again for your concern. We can be chatting but pls stop bringing ppl I have down grade completely and join them with my name. Thanks you.
@Yuvraj …nah me too. Just that I normally here his name a lot so I thought he was an influential hindu to outside world. I don’t have to type it on goggle I get the picture kind of its still not so far from my perception in terms of different terminolgies ,meanings etc.
No Rantideva fasted for 48 days cos they said no rain,crops were fried etc. So the he decided to take fasting. But before then it’s stated that in his compound they had a river nearby where they slaughter cow. Anyways am not talking about religion saga am talking of the misconceptions of meat eating but dint doubt you. And yes even me I had that feeling of vivekananda as one of his friends said anytime they visited a restaurant he orders for beef? Anyway tanx @Yuvraj am abit flexible now. I can can picture it. You have a nice day.
Taken from FB… Those supporting aamir… read this…
Amidst a fake atmosphere of Intolerance being created in India, in the last 1 month, I owe my version of what I, a Muslim lady, living and working in India feel like. This has been due from me since sometime. Now, I feel the water has gone above the head and I too need to share my views. So, here it is.
I am a Muslim lady, a practicing dermatologist by profession and I run my own high- end laser skin clinic, in Bangalore. I was brought up in Kuwait and at the age of 18, came to India to pursue medical education. I decided to stay back in India while almost all my friends left India for greener pastures. Not even once did I consider that being a Muslim could create a problem for me, as my sense of nationalism held me back to my roots and so here I am, serving my country since the last 20 years.
I studied in Manipal, Karnataka. I lived alone like all students do. While I was in college, all my professors were Hindus and almost all the people who I would interact with were Hindus as well. There is not a single incident when anyone showed partiality towards me based on my gender or religion. Every single one of them was kind and in fact sometimes, I felt as though they made an extra effort to make feel like I was one of them. I am ever so grateful to all of them for making my life in Manipal as comfortable as it could get.
After leaving Manipal, I relocated to Bangalore with my husband. By then I had been married and so we decided to make our life in Bangalore. There is a reason, why we chose Bangalore and here is where I will talk about my husband. He is a Muslim too, with a very typical first name, Iqbal. He is an aerospace engineer with MTech from IIT-Chennai and PhD from Germany. His profession takes him to the most highly secured organizations of India, like DRDO, NAL, HAL, GTRE, ISRO, IISc, BHEL; you name it and be assured that he has visited all of them without any hassles. Not even once has been stripped off or asked for special security clearance or any such bias has been shown towards him. And NO, things have not changed even after Modi gov came into power. Things are in fact more disciplined and streamlined even at government organizations, from what I hear from my husband. As a matter of fact, Iqbal has been completely stripped each time he traveled to US and was under secret surveillance while he was doing his PhD in Germany, after the 9/11 attacks on US. We literally received a letter from the German government that he has been cleared and is not anymore under suspicion. Talk about Muslim paranoia! Its very understandable too due to the current situations in the world. My husband is highly respected and loved by the people he works with, and all of them happen to be Hindus. None of this has changed even in recent times, so Intolerance is just a word for us on a practical basis.
I opened my clinic last year, just before Modi gov came into power. I am a law-abiding citizen and I file my taxes like service tax on a monthly basis. I have never indulged in any activities, which could put me into any kind of trouble. I am comfortably running my clinic, which is doing very well, thanks to all my patients and clients, who all happen to be Hindus. A handful of my patients are from other communities. My entire staff is Hindu, and believe me when I say that they take better care of my clinic than I could any day! I interact with bankers, government officers and with so many people on a daily basis. Not even once in the last 20 years, did I have the need to even think of leaving India! My entire family lives abroad and all that I need to do is just decide that I don’t want to stay here. I have open offers of opening clinic in Kuwait, which would fetch me huge amount of revenue and yet why should I stay in India, if I am not happy and if I am facing any kind of bias?
In Kuwait, we are considered as NOBODY. Yes, despite being in Kuwait for the last 40 years or so, my family is still considered as expatriates, with no rights. We need to renew our resident permit periodically and the laws there constantly keep changing, making the life of expatriates only harder. We have to strictly comply with their rules and laws, which is fine but we are openly discriminated. They consider Asians as third grade people, while giving preference to their citizens, Arabs and Whites. We are not unhappy there but we have no sense of belonging either. At least, I never had and never have even when I visit Kuwait now. We are Muslims in a Muslim country, and yet we are considered as Indians with no special regards. I figured long back ago, that India is the only country, where I will have a sense of belonging. You are an Indian-American in US, Indian-Canadian in Canada, Indian-British in UK and so on but only in India you are an Indian. Period. Rest can say whatever they want and defend their choices but this is a fact. You can only feel at home, in your own home. I have lived in different places and everywhere I stand out but in India. No body in India asks me, ‘Are you an Indian?’, and this is what makes all the difference. a
So, what are these celebrities ranting about? An ordinary citizen like my husband and I are not facing any such issues, then what have they faced? Why is Amir Khan’s wife, Kiran Rao feeling so afraid? They are prominent people, living in posh localities, their children study in the best of schools and they have personal security escorting them at all times. I travel alone everyday and yet don’t feel afraid. I want to know as a responsible citizen, from Amir Khan and Shahrukh Khan as well, why did they make such irresponsible statements and spoil the image of the 13 crores of Muslims in India? Who the hell are they to make public statements based on their personal perception? Who gave them the liberty to tarnish the image of my country on an International level, that Muslims are not safe in India? How dare Pakistan invites them to stay in Pakistan? I feel hurt when I read the statements of my Hindu friends on Muslims. I feel afraid that they are being pushed to the limit and the tolerance and acceptance that I have enjoyed all these years, might just vanish! I feel afraid that my own people might shun me and I may get alienated in my own country, because of a handful of ungrateful bunch of fools! How long can I expect majority of Hindus to tolerate this nuisance? It’s high time that Muslims understand the value of the freedom and acceptance that we enjoy in India and if not, I pray that my Hindu fellow citizens continue to keep their patience.
All this talk about beef has made me hungry…. Lol
Ok Lets just stop talking about meat food whatever on a bollywood website…!
@aisha
In my eyes you cant do no wrong- keep rocking hun
;-)
@empty SKY
YES the Damage was done by the perverted media n by ppl like you misinterpreting the words or mistrusting your stars words/ thinking…! In future comprehend what has ACTUALLY been said n if its AUTHENTIC or not… You should have been aware of the fact that the written press have a way to make a mountain out of a hole…!
@ aisha- yes i have read in an ayurveda book that in apatkaal (when you nothing have tobeat) you can eat abhakshya things what is not for eat. But in rantidev case i have to read his story. I will tell you my conclusion on this at other page. But this flexibility of eating is not ideol thinking of every book of hindus. We have story of king shivi who scrifices his body parts to indra who was in get up of hrishi for saving a pigeon. Remind that rantideva was not god he was just a king.
@ aisha- yes i have read in an ayurveda book that in apatkaal (when you nothing have to eat) you can eat abhakshya things what is not for eat. But in rantidev case i have to read his story. I will tell you my conclusion on this at other page. But this flexibility of eating is not ideol thinking of every book of hindus. We have story of king shivi who scrifices his body parts to indra who was in get up of hrishi for saving a pigeon. Remind that rantideva was not god he was just a king.
@ aisha – you can open link to know what is the real story of rantideva – http://m.jagranjunction.com/2012/05/12/%e0%a4%ae%e0%a4%b9%e0%a4%be%e0%a4%ad%e0%a4%be%e0%a4%b0%e0%a4%a4-%e0%a4%97%e0%a4%be%e0%a4%af-%e0%a4%94%e0%a4%b0-%e0%a4%b0%e0%a4%be%e0%a4%9c%e0%a4%be-%e0%a4%b0%e0%a4%a8%e0%a5%8d%e0%a4%a4%e0%a4%bf/
And remember our country was ruled by foreigners so they include and translated some words for their profit. Unfortunately some hindu writers like rahul sanskrityayan was also against vedas. He translated dwishatsahastra mean 200,000 as dwisahastra 2000.
you people in lndia you Upset me very well, most especially who against him, A amir Khan he don’t have intention to live the country, but he said what his wife advice him. don’t you know A amir Khan he proud of his country, okay you have English problem, or forgotten when he said am proud of my country.