'I Do Karwa Chauth As I Live In A Free Country', People Slam Ratna Pathak Shah For Her Comment

Ratna Pathak Shah believes that our society is becoming extremely conservative and superstitious. She thinks that women are the ones who suffer the most in such societies. Drawing a comparison with Saudi Arabia, she asked, "Do we want to become like Saudi Arabia?" She also said that modern women doing Karwa Chauth was appalling for her.

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Ratna Pathak Shah said this in a recent interview. "I feel this very strongly that our society is becoming conservative." Now she is getting massively criticised on Twitter. Here's what people are saying.?

Ratna Pathak Shah on Karwa Chauth

In an interview with Pinkvilla, Ratna Pathak Shah said that she was recently asked if she was doing Karwa Chauth. To which she replied, "Am I mad?".

"Nothing has changed for women, or very little has changed in very crucial areas. Our society is becoming extremely conservative. We’re becoming superstitious, we’re being forced into accepting and making religion a very important part of one’s life. Someone asked me for the first time last year if I’m keeping ‘karwa Chauth ka vrat (observing karwa Chauth)’. I said, ‘Am I mad?"

She said the fact that modern women are doing Karwa Chauth is appalling.?

"Isn’t it appalling that modern educated women do karwa Chauth, praying for the lives of husbands so that they can have some validity in life? A widow in the Indian context is a horrible situation, isn’t it? So anything that keeps me away from widowhood. Really? In the 21st century, we are talking like this? Educated women are doing this."

Ratna Shah compares India to Saudi Arabia

She said that when a country becomes more conservative, women suffer the most.?

"Look at all the conservative societies in this world. Women are the ones who are most affected. What’s the scope of women in Saudi Arabia? Do we want to become like Saudi Arabia? And we will become because it’s very, very convenient. Women provide a lot of unpaid labour within the home. If you have to pay for that labour, who will do it? Women are forced into that situation."

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