Women's Day | What Women DON'T Want. Urfi Javed, Devoleena, Kashmera Shah speak up
India Today
What is International Women's Day? A day of free gifts and discount coupons and pink balloons? Or a day of equality? IndiaToday.in got it touch with Kashmera Shah, Urfi Javed, Rati Agnihotri and more, only to find out they DON'T want to celebrate women's day. But why?
On International Women’s Day today, March 8, your social media feed must be full of pictures and emotional posts in honour of the women in your life. While on this day, we remember the sacrifices women made and the love we received from them, the streets outside remain unsafe. As do our homes. From being a day that recognised the need for equal rights for women everywhere, International Women's Day has somehow become all about discount coupons, freebies, pink balloons and whatnot. Which is why the likes of Kashmera Shah, Urfi Javed, Rati Agnihotri, Devoleena Bhattacharjee, Sudha Chandran, and more, told IndiaToday.in that they don't want to celebrate this day at all.
Enough with trying to find out what women want. Here's what women don't want:
Rati Agnihotri, who has been vocal about the domestic violence she faced in her life, says, "Women should have self-confidence. They should know their strengths, their achievements and their capabilities. They should not wait for acknowledgement from someone else. Womenfolk should also never hesitate to appreciate their fellow women and lift them up. I don’t understand why we wait for March 8 to respect women."
Sudha Chandran, in the same breath, asks, "Why should one day be dedicated to women? Every day should be ours because a woman is someone who works tirelessly without a holiday. She thinks only of her family all the time and she puts herself last."
Kamya Punjabi adds, "We celebrate Women’s Day every year on March 8, but does anything change? Our society is still the same! I saw a video today where a man was forcing a woman to pay dowry, while she quietly says that her family will give it later. Why?"
Kashmera Shah says, "Do we really need to celebrate Woman’s Day when the world is looking at an impending war? I am done with all these fake commercials forced upon us. Until every woman in this world is allowed an education, free sanitary pads, the right to choose their life partner and a safe environment to grow up in, I don’t think I would celebrate Woman’s Day."
