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Twinkle Khanna Has A Kickass Reply For Haters Who Shamed Her For Taking A Dig At Karva Chauth

bySusri Sahu
16th October 2017
3 minute read
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Twinkle Khanna makes headlines every time she puts her 180 (or 20) characters to good use. Apart from the usual, funny one-liners and bone-tickling humour, Mrs Funnybones is known for her unflinching voice about socially relevant issues that make a difference.

But it’s not all claps all the time; there are clap-backs and then there are also ones that do not deserve a place in human civilisation. Yes, even Twinkle Khanna gets her share of cyber-trolling because of the voice we laud and applaud.

Remember the time when Twitter questioned her morality for taking a dig at the age-old ritual of Karva Chauth? If you don’t, here’s what gave rise to the sanskari tweet-storm.

But hey, it is Twinkle ‘awesome’ Khanna we are talking about.

It might have taken time but Twinkle Khanna has finally responded to everyone who shamed her for not being Indian enough and it couldn’t make more sense. As a part of her TOI blog, she addressed the women of the nation and said,

“Look beneath the gota-embroidered dupattas and turn over the chhani, and you can see a more complex issue.”

In fact, she put the entire in picture in perspective with a powerful rationale.

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“It’s not that I don’t miss the excitement of a special day, the mock complaining with my friends about starving on Karva Chauth, the allure of standing beneath a moonlit sky with my partner but I cannot propagate a mindset where a man’s life is more important than a woman’s.”

Twinkle didn’t stop at that. She even supported the fire-cracker ban and condemned the way the measure–to redeem whatever is left of our environment–to a burning hell of religious bigotry and intolerance.

Coming out in the defense of designer Masaba Gupta (who was called a ‘bastard’ for backing the ban), she said, 

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“Like me and millions of other children raised in India, Masaba must have celebrated Diwali with new clothes, sweets and the quintessential rockets, anars and phuljharis. But when she supports the ban on firecrackers because of the pollution it creates, the earthworms once again flail desperately, not by quoting statistics or making logical arguments to refute her point but by muck-raking.
‘Don’t mess with our ancient traditions,’ they say.”

 

And what is her response to this group of low-life ‘they’? THIS. 

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“I would like to tell them that if we stuck to all our traditions just because they’re ancient then we should still be pushing widows into funeral pyres to commit sati and get our children married off at the age of eight. If saying that makes me a bad Indian, then so be it.”

Like that wasn’t savage enough, Twinkle had the last laugh with this concluding message to all the chest-thumping ‘flag-bearers of ancient tradition’ out there…

“Why do you write open letters, tweet and troll in the language of the Brits?

Why not go traditional there as well, use only our ancient languages and spare us your venom-filled and grammatically incorrect English?”

Take a bow, Twinkle. Take a bow!

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