New Delhi, Nov 25 (ANI): Bollywood Actor Aamir Khan, who is under fire for his controversial statement over the growing intolerance in the country, on Wednesday said he is proud to be an Indian and doesn’t need anyone’s endorsement for that. “Neither I, nor my wife Kiran, have any intention of leaving 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,” Aamir said. “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 people calling me anti-national, I’d like to say I am proud to be Indian, don’t need anyone’s endorsement for that,” he added. Aamir ended his statement with Rabindranath Tagore’s poem ‘Where the mind is without fear’. Speaking at the eighth edition of the Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Awards, Aamir had earlier expressed alarm and despondency over the rise in cases displaying intolerance in the last six to eight months. He said that a sense of ‘insecurity’ and ‘fear’ had seeped deep within soc
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