February 16, 2017
"The Test Case" actress Nimrat Kaur's father was killed by
Muslim militants, but she says her mother kept them away from an anti-Islamic
environment and brought her up to have a liberal mind. She also said there
should be no political interference in the Indian Army.
Nimrat plays the
role of a combat soldier in the web series "The Test Case".
On last
week's terror attack in Jammu where militants stormed an army camp, Nimrat said:
"I think politics should be in its area and should not enter into the Indian
Army, just the way the Indian Army does not enter politics. See, in our country,
it is very easy to grow up in an anti-Islamic environment, especially for people
like us.
"Because my father's life was taken by militants who were
Muslims, there were many occurrences where people said 'Muslims are like that,
violence exists in their religion, they kill people' and all other hate
thoughts. But my mother always shut them up and took us away from those people
because she wanted us to be grow up with a liberal mind."
The actress was
present along with producer Ekta Kapoor on the talk show "The Town Hall", hosted
by journalist Barkha Dutt, here on Thursday.
On her growing up days in an
army cantonment, in a secular environment, Nimrat said: "See, identifying a Sikh
is very easy. A Sikh man has a turban and facial hair... that is in our
religion. Keeping that aside, I have seen or faced no difference between me and
my friends in the army cantonment... We all were given same ration, same food,
same space on living all was the replica of each other.
"We had
mandir-masjid-gurdwara next to each other, with no difference. Inside the
cantonment, the environment is so secular that until after my father's death
when my family shifted to Noida, I did not realise religious difference exists."
The conversation will air on Mirror Now.