{"id":312173,"date":"2019-05-13T11:46:57","date_gmt":"2019-05-13T11:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=312173"},"modified":"2019-05-13T11:46:57","modified_gmt":"2019-05-13T11:46:57","slug":"free-indias-first-terrorist-a-hindu-nathuram-godse-says-kamal-haasan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/free-indias-first-terrorist-a-hindu-nathuram-godse-says-kamal-haasan\/","title":{"rendered":"Free India\u2019s first terrorist a Hindu, Nathuram Godse, says Kamal Haasan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-307406 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/kamal-hassan.-300x257.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"482\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/kamal-hassan.-300x257.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/kamal-hassan..jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/kamal-hassan.-490x420.jpg 490w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 482px) 100vw, 482px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Actor and Makkal Needhi Maiyam (MNM) founder Kamal Haasan has said that the first terrorist in free India was a Hindu. He was referring to Nathuram Godse who killed Mahatma Gandhi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Addressing an election rally for his party candidate in Aravakurichi assembly constituency in Tamil Nadu&#8217;s Karur district. Haasan clarified that his statement was not meant to appeal to the Muslim-majority electorate in the constituency.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cI am not saying this because this is a Muslim-dominated area, but I am saying this before a statue of Gandhi. Independent India\u2019s first terrorist was a Hindu, his name is Nathuram Godse. There it (terrorism, apparently) starts,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Aravakurichi is one of the four assembly constituencies where bypolls will be held on May 19. Kamal Haasan&#8217;s MNM has fielded a candidate from that seat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Haasan said he was a \u201cself-assumed great-grandson\u201d of Mahatma Gandhi and that he had come here \u201cseeking answers for his assassination.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;Good Indians desire for equality and want the three colours in the tricolour to remain intact. I am a good Indian, will proudly proclaim that,&#8221; Haasan added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Actor Vivek Oberoi who played Narendra Modi in a biopic on Prime Minister Modi slammed Haasan\u2019s remarks, saying both art and terror \u201chave no religion\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cDear Kamal sir, you are a great artist. Just like art has no religion, terror has no religion either! You can say Godse was a terrorist, why would you specify Hindu? Is it because you were in a Muslim dominated area looking for votes?\u201d Vivek said in a tweet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cPlease sir, from a much smaller artist to a great one, lets not divide this country, we are one Jai Hind..#AkhandBharat #UnDividedIndia,\u201d Vivek added.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actor and Makkal Needhi Maiyam (MNM) founder Kamal Haasan has said that the first terrorist in free India was a Hindu. He was referring to Nathuram Godse who killed Mahatma Gandhi. Addressing an election rally for his party candidate in Aravakurichi assembly constituency in Tamil Nadu&#8217;s Karur district. Haasan clarified that his statement was not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":307406,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1801,2072,2014,2534],"tags":[641,3939],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312173"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312173"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312175,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312173\/revisions\/312175"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/307406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}