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Is celebrity baby culture here to stay in India? Do celebrities like Lara Dutta and Aamir Khan have some lessons for us? Listen to the first Women's Web podcast!
Is celebrity baby culture here to stay in India? Do celebrities like Lara Dutta and Aamir Khan have some lessons for us? Listen to the first Women’s Web podcast!
By Amrita Rajan
Everything the Bachchans do makes the news – even if it’s just being born. This is the lesson we learned from the arrival of “Beti B”, the daughter of Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and Abhishek Bachchan. It was such a hotly anticipated event, even in these troubled times, that the I&B Ministry actually sent out guidelines for news crews to follow.
In the first episode of the Spotlight podcast, Sunayana Roy of the blog Sunny Days joins me to discuss:
– Has celebrity baby culture officially arrived in India?
– Is the Bachchan family’s obvious joy at welcoming a granddaughter a positive sign for society at large?
– Can celebrities really influence other people’s child raising choices?
– Lara Dutta and maternity wear against the backdrop of Indian pregnancy superstitions
– The phenomenon of “too posh to push” – a convenient cover for doctors who like to push costly C-sections on their patients?
– The generational gap: will we turn into our mothers?
– Aamir Khan and Kiran Rao’s surrogacy boosting morale
Celeb Baby Culture: Here to stay? by Women’s Web
For all this and more, click on the podcast above to play!
If there is a topic you’d like to see covered on this show or have other suggestions for us, we’d love to hear from you in the comment section.
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UP Boards Topper Prachi Nigam was trolled on social media for her facial hair; our obsession with appearance is harsh on young minds.
Prachi Nigam’s photo has been doing the rounds on social media for the right reasons. Well, scratch that- I wish the above statement were true. This 15-year-old girl should ideally be revelling in her spectacular achievement of scoring a whopping 98.05% and topping her tenth-grade boards. But oddly enough, along with her marks, it’s something else that garners more attention – her facial hair.
While the trolls are driving themselves giddy by mocking this girl who hasn’t even completed her school yet, the ones who are taking her side are going one step ahead – they are sharing her photoshopped pictures, sans the facial hair, looking nothing less than a celebrity with captions saying – “Prachi Nigam, ten years later”.
Doctors have already diagnosed her with PCOD in their comments, based on photographic evidence. While we have names for people shamed for their weight – body shaming, for their skin colour- racism, for their age- age shaming, for being a female- sexism, this category of shaming where one faces criticism for their appearance has no name. With that, it also has zero shame attached to it.
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