Yogi Adityanath should do gas-releasing asana: Twinkle Khanna (Repeating story for all needing)
New Delhi March 25 (IANS) Taking a dig at Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath for his rather off-the-cuff remarks on women s protection author-columnist Twinkle Khanna on Friday suggested that he needed to do a yoga asana which eases releasing gas.
At the India Today Woman Summit and Awards here Twinkle -- popular in the social media world as Mrs Funnybones -- was at her wittiest best while fielding questions on her life as a writer mother wife and her views on feminism politicians and motherhood.
Asked what she would have to say to Adityanath who according to session hostess Koel Purie doesn t have an amazing track record for his statements on women Twinkle quipped: He needs to do an asana... which helps release gas.
But I think he s also changing fashion. In fact I had tweeted as well that Asian Paints must announce the new colour of the season -- Beguiling Saffron with a tagline: Orange is the new brown.
Women empowerment and feminism is a subject close to the heart of the actress-turned-writer whose latest column explored sexual harassment at work.
Of late Bollywood s leading ladies like Alia Bhatt Sonakshi Sinha and Deepika Padukone have been flaunting T-shirts with feminist slogans. But there s a need to go beyond that says Twinkle who believes in the event presenter Vivel s Ab Samjhauta Nahin tagline.
As long as you believe in equality you re a feminist. Having said that these days I see a lot of proverbial T-shirt wearing feminists and that s fantastic.
There s one (T-shirt) by Dior that I really want... But with me I feel like I need to go a bit beyond that.
What is she doing on that front?
I think for me my version of feminism is based on me pushing the envelope by picking stories I tell and projects I plan. So I am making a movie called Pad Man . It revolves around menstruation and sanitary pads.
I ve put my money my clout my goodwill and determination behind a project which I believe will alleviate the burden from a lot of women and will take a part of our biology that is right now wrapped in newspaper and shoved down black plastic bags and bring it out for open discussion.
That s my version of feminist.
Pad Man is Twinkle s debut film production and it features Akshay. It is based on a real life story of Arunachalam Muruganantham who devised a cheaper way to make sanitary pads for women in his village and also sells the machine which makes low-cost pads to NGOs to work towards women s hygiene.
Twinkle says she chased Muruganantham for eight months and when they spoke she found an instant connect with his one-liners and how he doesn t take himself very seriously. He once told her: You look like the actress...Raveena Tandon.
I was about to drop his story Twinkle quipped adding another joke when she narrated how she was recently handed over a bag at home and told that it had her Pampers.
--IANS
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