It is his country too!
Overheard during a shopping spree last evening – “Adha desh Aamir Khan ko India se bahar nikalne pe tula hua hai!” (Translation – Half the country is bent upon driving Aamir out of India!) It was a hilarious and yet a telling comment. Are we so intolerant that one person’s views make us take out all our swords and poison arrows? Twitterati has exploded in righteous anger, and LinkedIn and Facebook are trending with self-eulogizing letters to the superstar. Why is that so? So many drivers here: I am a patriot/ nationalist and he is not? I am an Indian, and he is a Muslim? He has earned so much, and I don’t earn as much? I contribute to his earnings, and he is ungrateful? He is a Khan, and he should be grateful that I not only let him live in my country but become a superstar? He is scared to stay in a democratic country where he cannot even openly express his views. Do you blame him? Let’s consider another scenario. You are staying in the Gulf, and you are not allowed
