Dear Aamir, Here’s Why We Can’t Tolerate Your Intolerance Speech

Why are Indians intolerant of Aamir Khan’s comments?

It was reported a couple of weeks back that Aamir Khan had suffered a shoulder injury while shooting for Dangal. But on Monday it seemed like it had been more of a head trauma than a mere shoulder injury. (Ahem!)

The actor joined the debate of rising intolerance in India by giving a most alarming statement:

(Wife) Kiran and I have lived all our lives in India. For the first time, she said, should we move out of India? That’s a disastrous and big statement for Kiran to make to me. She fears for her child. She fears about what the atmosphere around us will be. She feels scared to open the newspapers everyday. That does indicate that there is a sense of growing disquiet.

Aamir Khan, at the Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Awards