Dear Vogue, We are thrilled that you’re trying to do your part for empowering women, but if there’s one thing I have learnt, it’s that there’s nothing glamorous, nothing fancy, nothing glittery about women’s empowerment in India. The reality of our situation is far from what you are making it to be and your portrayal of women’s empowerment somehow only seems to be aimed at … [Read more...]
Why Are We Unnecessarily Turning Deepika’s Video Into A Dirty Meaningless Argument?
My choice! So my country is currently dealing with the trauma of My Choice. Feminism, Anti-men, infidelity, anti-rapists, women empowerment and god knows what other terms can be related to it. Deepika Padukone looks ethereally gorgeous and so do the other women. The message of the video was clear and sound and loud. But as we all know India is the largest democracy and how can … [Read more...]
What if things which were said by Deepika in this women empowerment video were said by a guy!
A recent video by Homi Adajania, starring Deepika Padukone, is supposedly made to empower women. Here Deepika with 99 other women, try and talk about how every woman feel about themselves. The video reminded me of something that I read on Quora long back. There was a question, ‘What is the biggest irony in India?’ and a girl named Janga Vyshnavi answered, “When a woman says, … [Read more...]
Just make an apology TOI and let’s put the matter to rest
Seldom can we see a newspaper, rarely a popular name in the business, make a complete fool of it. But when one of the most widely read dailies makes a blundering foul and then turns belligerent in the face of criticism, it becomes all the more ridiculous. This is exactly what we have seen happen in the last couple of days in the Deepika Padukone Vs Times of India/TOI … [Read more...]