Want An Opinion? Ask Bollywood Actor Swara Bhaskar

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Why Swara Bhaskar wants to delete her Twitter account.   Thanks Ishq FM for the footage!

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00:00I think I'll have to delete my Twitter account.

00:06No, but I want you to have that.

00:08We want to hear Swaraji.

00:09Yeah, so then you have to be prepared for all the abuses.

00:13Absolutely.

00:14Because having an opinion means that people will feel that

00:17you're saying this, now we'll question you on it.

00:20Defend yourself.

00:30Swara, Bollywood people want you to stay away from your favourite word, feminism.

00:48You've been extremely vocal and very, very vociferous about your opinion,

00:53so how difficult is it to be an opinionated woman in today's times?

00:58I think it's the easiest today.

01:03I think that having an opinion is considered to be a good thing.

01:13It's a sign of strength.

01:15Today's strong woman.

01:18Today's powerful woman.

01:20That kind of thing.

01:21And I think that in popular culture, generally speaking,

01:25what you think, you're telling the truth.

02:26Absolutely.

02:27So, how can we fix this?

02:29There's no quick fix solution.

02:31I feel that our civilization is structured on a patriarchal basis.

02:41Human society begins with the exchange of women amongst the kins.

02:46Since the time of one human being.

02:48So, that's what our civilization is based on.

02:51The whole notion of family is one in which the father is the head of the family.

02:56He's the bread.

02:57He's the bread.

02:58That's the control.

02:59The lineage is passed on from the male.

03:01Which is fine.

03:02That's how we've evolved.

03:04But I think it's important to be conscious of it.

03:06And I always feel, it's kind of sad almost,

03:11that all the isms, like the fight against racism,

03:15or the fight against class inequality,

03:18or the fight for freedom in India,

03:21were all a little easy.

03:23Because the enemy was an identifiable person.

03:27Either he was British, or a white supremacist,

03:30or a landlord.

03:33The fight for feminism,

03:37you have to fight the people you love the most.

03:43Your father, your brother, your boyfriend, your husband.

03:47That's our first experience of patriarchy within the family.

03:51And sometimes we don't realize it.

03:53And they don't realize it either.

03:55When my father comes home,

03:57he'll always tell his daughter to give him water.

04:00Give him water, make him tea.

04:01So many boys do that.

04:03Even though I've never done anything in my family.

04:06I don't think so, but I think things are changing.

04:08I think women are expressing themselves now.

04:11They're standing up for their rights.

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