If nation can tolerate Aamir’s film (PK), how can he feel unsafe: RSS

“His wife feels unsafe in India, but did she think about leaving the country after the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks?” he asked. About perceptions of rising intolerance, Kumar said it was a political ploy by some to create hurdles in the country’s development. “It is just intellectual terrorism. Those returning awards are insulting the people of the nation.

“(Earlier), actors like Dilip Kumar and Meena Kumari had to change their names and work. But it is today’s tolerance that allows them to use their real names. Even Pakistani-Canadian columnist Tarek Fatah has said that if there is any country in the world safest for Muslims, it is India,” he said. Kumar said everyone had the right to express their views but that did not allow them to take the law in their hands. The first attack on freedom of expression, he said, was by Jawaharlal Nehru-led Congress government in the form of the first amendment to the Constitution in 1951.

“The government of Madras had banned Crossroads magazine after it published an article written by Romesh Thapar criticising Nehru’s economic and foreign policies. While Thapar won the case against Madras government, freedom of expression was strangulated with the first amendment being passed on May 25,” said Kumar.