{"id":493,"date":"2016-01-31T07:02:36","date_gmt":"2016-01-31T07:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globalpress.hinduismnow.org?p=490&amp;preview_id=490"},"modified":"2016-01-31T07:02:36","modified_gmt":"2016-01-31T07:02:36","slug":"scared-to-say-i-am-hindu-says-anupam-kher-the-siasat-daily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/?p=493","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Scared to say I am Hindu,&#8221; says Anupam Kher &#8211; The Siasat Daily"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Mumbai: When actor Aamir Khan expressed alarm, publicly voiced and expressed his wife Kiran Rao\u2019s fear about staying in the country due to the growing \u201cintolerance,\u201d he has been criticised for his remarks.<\/p>\n<p>Aamir faced extreme protests for his statement and still continues to receive abusive comments on social media for the same.<\/p>\n<p>But now, in a surprising statement during a recent interview with IBNLive, Anupam Kher said that he is scared to admit that he\u2019s a Hindu!<\/p>\n<p>As per Times of India reports, the actor, during the course of the interview, in response to the question, as to how he felt about certain Bollywood celebrities being scared of the situation in India, said that everyone in their profession was scared, including him. When prodded further, he said that he is scared to say that <em><strong>he is a Hindu and if he puts a teeka on his forehead and wears orange-ish clothes, people might brand him as an RSS guy or BJP fanatic.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Kher criticized his colleague Aamir Khan\u2019s comments about \u2018intolerance.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>People are not happy and reacted to Kher\u2019s statement saying that he\u2019s scared to admit he\u2019s a Hindu.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.siasat.com\/news\/scared-say-hindu-says-anupam-kher-909670\/\">&#8220;Scared to say I am Hindu,&#8221; says Anupam Kher &#8211; The Siasat Daily<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.siasat.com\/news\/scared-say-hindu-says-anupam-kher-909670\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u201cScared to say I am Hindu,\u201d says Anupam Kher \u2013 The Siasat Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai: When actor Aamir Khan expressed alarm, publicly voiced and expressed his wife Kiran Rao\u2019s fear about staying in the country due to the growing \u201cintolerance,\u201d he has been criticised for his remarks. Aamir faced extreme protests for his statement and still continues to receive abusive comments on social media for the same. But now, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[1153],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}