'I Do Karwa Chauth As I Live In A Free Country', People Slam Ratna Pathak Shah For Her Comment
Ratna Pathak Shah gets flak for saying modern women doing Karwa Chauth is appalling. She is also being criticised for comparing India with Saudi Arabia.
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.
Age old traditions of only Hindu makes India superstitious and conservative and all other religions old practices make India progressive, #RatnaPathakShah knows nothing of Hindu religion or practice, we don't expect any gyaan from her nor we expect her to follow our practice, https://t.co/6GMisn6rg8
¡ª Sneha ?? (@sneharaghunath9) July 28, 2022
#IslamicTerrorismInIndia
¡ª ???? (@ajaad2001) July 28, 2022
Bollywood and their hate for Hindu culture.#RatnaPathakShah pic.twitter.com/GSTBepjnFO
How do they live with so much hate#RatnaPathakShah pic.twitter.com/YTVa6Z2bSZ
¡ª Sanjay Tanwani (@tanwani_sanjay) July 28, 2022
People commenting on my belief system is Appalling
¡ª Shweta Shalini (@shweta_shalini) July 28, 2022
I do Karwachauth ¡®cause I live in a free country where I CAN follow what I believe
I am a MODERN woman because I am not judgemental about others.
I am also an INTELLIGENT woman because I know my rights.#RatnaPathakShah pic.twitter.com/zk2necT29z
Modern women earing hijab is ¡®Freedom of choice¡¯
¡ª Gonika Arora (@AroraGonika) July 28, 2022
Modern women doing Karva Chauth is ¡®Appalling¡¯!!
???? ?? ???? ?? ???? ?????????#RatnaPathakShah #RatnaPathakShah #KarvaChauth #Hijab
#RatnaPathakShah
¡ª ???????? ?????? ?? (@Wakeupishere) July 28, 2022
GET WELL SOON#KarvaChauth pic.twitter.com/5ivItei2HE
I have never requested observance of #karvachauth & compliance with any/all of it's ritual requirements.
¡ª Mike Desai (@MikeDesai) July 28, 2022
That said, I have never objected to the same.
Sickening that feminists casually insult Hindu practises without legal consequences.
I reject such "freedom of expression". ?
Elite liberals and progressives lecturing educated, independent and culturally-rooted women (and men, too) what customs to observe or not to observe, is regressive and appalling.#KarvaChauth
¡ª Soumili Das ?? (@Soumili_Squeaks) July 28, 2022
Why is #RatnaPathakShah having her husband, Naseeruddin Shah surname, is it not superstitious or regressive, conservative, let her first give up, Ratna is second wife of Naseeruddin and was living with him for years before he got a divorce from his first wife. #karvachauth
¡ª Sneha ?? (@sneharaghunath9) July 28, 2022
Before RW goes mad crazy outraging against Ratna Pathak Shah's out of the blue provocative comments on #KarvaChauth let me inform, this is the usual Bollywood PR nonsense before a film release! So ignore her, if that's at all possible.
¡ª Joga-Maya ? (@jogakhichudi) July 27, 2022
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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