Oh
[Music]
why am I here well I am here because I
am fortunate now you might wonder as to
why am i fortunate am i fortunate
because I come from an affluent family
am i fortunate because I have the luxury
of choice or am i fortunate because back
in the day my grandfather drove a shiny
black ambassador no I’m not fortunate
because of all of these reasons I am
fortunate because I was raised to be an
opinion at woman when I was growing up
as a child my family always told me
never ever shy away from speaking your
mind never be afraid to question the
authorities when you feel something is
wrong when I was growing up I was
allowed to gather and process
information the way I wanted to my
family never fed me with their
perspectives instead they let me have my
own and that is exactly why I consider
myself very very fortunate when I was
growing up my family my father my mother
my grandfather everybody told me that
while being a woman doesn’t make me any
less of a human being it doesn’t make me
any more either I can be anything that I
want to be I can get anywhere I want to
get and I will get everything that I
work for they gave me this unique
ability rather they helped me develop
this unique ability to judge
differentiate between black and white
and most importantly they learnt to
place their faith in my judgment and in
all possibilities that is the only
reason why I could have a journey that
is worth sharing and that is exactly why
I am here today and now moving on to the
most important part which is the what am
I going to talk about well I have quite
a diverse career but I have chosen a
topic that is completely probably not
related to my career or perhaps it is
something that has come out of
experiences but before I get there I
would like to play a small a V for you
all sultry sexy exotic my first guest
tonight works two parts with
equal aplomb actress and singer please
welcome the movie star who’s not only
known in her city but also globally
Priyanka Chopra
[Music]
he’s a survivor superstar he’s
definitely had a rollercoaster ride at
the movies but as always always emerged
victorious impeccable comic timing and
superstar screen presence on celluloid
please welcome the man after millions
and apparently with the millions mega
movie star Akshay Kumar the glam Queen
of Indian sports Sania Mirza from
serving up aces on a tennis courts is
stashing down the ramp in a designer
outfit Sania Mirza does everything with
true panache she has not only been
India’s top tennis player for several
years now but has also won over a
zillion hearts with her glamorous appeal
no wonder she has been hailed as a style
icon and enjoys a wide fan following
even among people who are not much tuned
into sports
vishka Rangi cricket ki duniya ke kes h
amok tasted arico 2de of Nepali liquor
mademou Tata had to Bora Bora Bora
stayed in for eternity asif ali abbas
dismissed such in Tendulkar co-op Nevada
Qaeda Thai Indian timki Jabba’s batsman
Virat Kohli so ladies and gentlemen I’m
sure the point that I was trying to make
is very very evident irrespective of
what industry of woman belongs to
irrespective of what her credentials are
irrespective of water achievements are
in India we will notice we have this
tendency of reducing a woman to her
physical appearance now there is a
question a very important question that
all of us should be asking ourselves as
to were we born this way were we born
born to be sexless or was it something
that went wrong when we were growing up
for example how many of you think that
women are weak by birth or men are
violent by birth anybody who thinks that
way I’m sure no right nobody is anything
by birth it is something the entire
process of becoming a human being
is actually the process of growing up
and in this entire process the most
important factor is the influences that
you have while you’re growing up I’m
going to talk about a few influences
that I have had while I was growing up
when I was in school I had this subject
called culture course wherein we were
taught about various stories that were
driven from the Indian mythology and
they made it relevant to the current day
and time one sad story was a story of
goddess sati in the story what happens
in sucky marries against the wishes of
her father and when she goes back to her
father’s house during a function the
father insults her husband which is Lord
Shiva and goddess sati decides to jump
into the pyre and give her life away
because she was told or she thinks that
her husband’s respect and her husband’s
ego is more important than her life
moral of the story being what is a woman
in India expected to do a woman in India
is expected to more or less be a
provider I’m not a provider by going out
and fetching the money that is needed to
go and buy food no a woman is expected
to stay at home cook for the husband
cook for the children and nurture them
and in case anything goes wrong with the
husband probably jump into the pyre
because hey remember you were told that
he did that in order to be the ideal
Indian woman you will have to follow the
culture and that is be the sati the
second influence of very important
influence while we were growing up I’m
sure everybody out here is aware of
Mahabharata right it is one of the most
important Indian epic in Mahabharat we
see a story of we see a story that is
basically a war between two male egos it
is the war between people who have
clashes in their opinions but at the end
of the day the bottom line being we
always say Oh had it not been for
Draupadi there would not have been any
war we’ve realized that we’ve been
conditioned to blame a woman for
everything that happens in our life
sometimes we blame our mother sometimes
we blame our sister sometimes we blame
our female friend sometimes we just
blame ourselves because
say hey vive born like this we do not
have equal opportunities we do not have
equal rights we are expected to be
mothers were expected to quit our jobs
because it is our responsibility to look
after our children but that is not the
fact these are the influences that we’ve
had while we are growing up and probably
that is why we think the way we do
because this is centuries of
conditioning that has made us the nation
the society that we are today and it is
time we start questioning other
influences it is time we start
questioning authorities it is time we
start questioning things that do not
make sense to us logically another very
important influence while growing up is
probably Ramayana we’ve all been brought
up with the stories of Ramayana and the
most important part of Ramayana or
rather the entire episode that gives
rise to the war that happens in Ramayana
later on is the abduction of Sita we all
know that when Sita was alone at in
their career as it was called Lakshman
drew a Lakshmana Rekha around Sita tried
to confine her to the limits of Lakshmi
Rekha in the name of her own safety now
by logic my my logic tells me that a
woman who can survive in a jungle is
certainly ought to be physically strong
you cannot expect somebody who’s not
physically strong to survive in a jungle
am i right you definitely cannot a
person who’s physically not very strong
is person physically does not have the
strength to do the things that are
required to do in a jungle the person
will not be able to survive but here we
are being told a story of Sita where she
is in a jungle she’s surviving and she
is doing very well at that for that
matter and here we see Lakshmi who
decides to draw Lakshmana rake her
around Sita calls intellectual Rekha and
tells her Bobby you stay within the
limits of the Lakshmana Rekha and you
will be safe but no Sita being Sita
decides to cross the Lakshmana Rekha she
is abducted and now here if you look at
the entire story people never blame
Robin for abducting her or people never
blame Lakshmana for deciding that he was
right when he thought he could confine
Sita to the limits of the Laxmi Lake
High and tell her that
have to be inside to be safe nobody
questions Rahm as to why he did not beat
Sita how to defend herself all we do all
we have ever heard is had had Sita
stayin with it stayed within the
confines of that Lakshmana Rekha she
would have been safe and that is exactly
what today we as a country tell above
women that in case you want to be safe
you stay within the limits what I want
to ask is who is the one who decides
these limits who is the one who sets
these limits for us how convenient it is
to confine Sita confine a woman to the
limits of Lakshmi Rekha and tell her
that this is your Rica and you have to
stay with him I am NOT going to stay
within any Lakshmi our economy can
confine me because I am blessed with
education empowerment self belief
confidence and I know I can conquer the
world when I want to and that is exactly
why I’m not going to stay within the
limits another thing that I want to
bring to your attention is that when we
hear about all the epics that are a part
of Indian culture or Indian history or
Indian mythology talk about Sarah my and
talk about mahavihara talk about
bhagavad-gita you will come to
understand that all these epochs have
been written by males everything has
been written by L by a gender that does
not understand another gender these are
all the perspective of a meal maybe
according to Valmiki Sita was not strong
enough maybe according to Viet Vyasa
Draupadi was the cause of everything but
what we need to understand is had the
things written had the things been
written differently from a different
perspective
would we be different people would we
still be sexist would we still be gender
biased and would it be a woman’s world
no absolutely not because one of the
most important characteristic of a woman
is that she is a nurturer one thing that
you cannot take away from a woman is the
fact that she is a nurturer
well I this is a topic like I said
earlier very close to my heart and I
could talk for hours and hours with
respect
to this topic Berta I see that I have
very limited time left so I’m going to
leave you with these last thoughts that
is under the garb of tradition culture
value history heritage for centuries now
women have been oppressed and suppressed
it is time we start questioning these
traditions it is time we start
questioning the heritage it is time we
start questioning the values while you
keep your values your heritage your
traditions your history close to you
remember you have to keep cells power
self belief empowerment education
awareness and above all logic closer to
yourself may logic prevail thank you so
much
[Applause]
[Music]
why am I here well I am here because I
am fortunate now you might wonder as to
why am i fortunate am i fortunate
because I come from an affluent family
am i fortunate because I have the luxury
of choice or am i fortunate because back
in the day my grandfather drove a shiny
black ambassador no I’m not fortunate
because of all of these reasons I am
fortunate because I was raised to be an
opinion at woman when I was growing up
as a child my family always told me
never ever shy away from speaking your
mind never be afraid to question the
authorities when you feel something is
wrong when I was growing up I was
allowed to gather and process
information the way I wanted to my
family never fed me with their
perspectives instead they let me have my
own and that is exactly why I consider
myself very very fortunate when I was
growing up my family my father my mother
my grandfather everybody told me that
while being a woman doesn’t make me any
less of a human being it doesn’t make me
any more either I can be anything that I
want to be I can get anywhere I want to
get and I will get everything that I
work for they gave me this unique
ability rather they helped me develop
this unique ability to judge
differentiate between black and white
and most importantly they learnt to
place their faith in my judgment and in
all possibilities that is the only
reason why I could have a journey that
is worth sharing and that is exactly why
I am here today and now moving on to the
most important part which is the what am
I going to talk about well I have quite
a diverse career but I have chosen a
topic that is completely probably not
related to my career or perhaps it is
something that has come out of
experiences but before I get there I
would like to play a small a V for you
all sultry sexy exotic my first guest
tonight works two parts with
equal aplomb actress and singer please
welcome the movie star who’s not only
known in her city but also globally
Priyanka Chopra
[Music]
he’s a survivor superstar he’s
definitely had a rollercoaster ride at
the movies but as always always emerged
victorious impeccable comic timing and
superstar screen presence on celluloid
please welcome the man after millions
and apparently with the millions mega
movie star Akshay Kumar the glam Queen
of Indian sports Sania Mirza from
serving up aces on a tennis courts is
stashing down the ramp in a designer
outfit Sania Mirza does everything with
true panache she has not only been
India’s top tennis player for several
years now but has also won over a
zillion hearts with her glamorous appeal
no wonder she has been hailed as a style
icon and enjoys a wide fan following
even among people who are not much tuned
into sports
vishka Rangi cricket ki duniya ke kes h
amok tasted arico 2de of Nepali liquor
mademou Tata had to Bora Bora Bora
stayed in for eternity asif ali abbas
dismissed such in Tendulkar co-op Nevada
Qaeda Thai Indian timki Jabba’s batsman
Virat Kohli so ladies and gentlemen I’m
sure the point that I was trying to make
is very very evident irrespective of
what industry of woman belongs to
irrespective of what her credentials are
irrespective of water achievements are
in India we will notice we have this
tendency of reducing a woman to her
physical appearance now there is a
question a very important question that
all of us should be asking ourselves as
to were we born this way were we born
born to be sexless or was it something
that went wrong when we were growing up
for example how many of you think that
women are weak by birth or men are
violent by birth anybody who thinks that
way I’m sure no right nobody is anything
by birth it is something the entire
process of becoming a human being
is actually the process of growing up
and in this entire process the most
important factor is the influences that
you have while you’re growing up I’m
going to talk about a few influences
that I have had while I was growing up
when I was in school I had this subject
called culture course wherein we were
taught about various stories that were
driven from the Indian mythology and
they made it relevant to the current day
and time one sad story was a story of
goddess sati in the story what happens
in sucky marries against the wishes of
her father and when she goes back to her
father’s house during a function the
father insults her husband which is Lord
Shiva and goddess sati decides to jump
into the pyre and give her life away
because she was told or she thinks that
her husband’s respect and her husband’s
ego is more important than her life
moral of the story being what is a woman
in India expected to do a woman in India
is expected to more or less be a
provider I’m not a provider by going out
and fetching the money that is needed to
go and buy food no a woman is expected
to stay at home cook for the husband
cook for the children and nurture them
and in case anything goes wrong with the
husband probably jump into the pyre
because hey remember you were told that
he did that in order to be the ideal
Indian woman you will have to follow the
culture and that is be the sati the
second influence of very important
influence while we were growing up I’m
sure everybody out here is aware of
Mahabharata right it is one of the most
important Indian epic in Mahabharat we
see a story of we see a story that is
basically a war between two male egos it
is the war between people who have
clashes in their opinions but at the end
of the day the bottom line being we
always say Oh had it not been for
Draupadi there would not have been any
war we’ve realized that we’ve been
conditioned to blame a woman for
everything that happens in our life
sometimes we blame our mother sometimes
we blame our sister sometimes we blame
our female friend sometimes we just
blame ourselves because
say hey vive born like this we do not
have equal opportunities we do not have
equal rights we are expected to be
mothers were expected to quit our jobs
because it is our responsibility to look
after our children but that is not the
fact these are the influences that we’ve
had while we are growing up and probably
that is why we think the way we do
because this is centuries of
conditioning that has made us the nation
the society that we are today and it is
time we start questioning other
influences it is time we start
questioning authorities it is time we
start questioning things that do not
make sense to us logically another very
important influence while growing up is
probably Ramayana we’ve all been brought
up with the stories of Ramayana and the
most important part of Ramayana or
rather the entire episode that gives
rise to the war that happens in Ramayana
later on is the abduction of Sita we all
know that when Sita was alone at in
their career as it was called Lakshman
drew a Lakshmana Rekha around Sita tried
to confine her to the limits of Lakshmi
Rekha in the name of her own safety now
by logic my my logic tells me that a
woman who can survive in a jungle is
certainly ought to be physically strong
you cannot expect somebody who’s not
physically strong to survive in a jungle
am i right you definitely cannot a
person who’s physically not very strong
is person physically does not have the
strength to do the things that are
required to do in a jungle the person
will not be able to survive but here we
are being told a story of Sita where she
is in a jungle she’s surviving and she
is doing very well at that for that
matter and here we see Lakshmi who
decides to draw Lakshmana rake her
around Sita calls intellectual Rekha and
tells her Bobby you stay within the
limits of the Lakshmana Rekha and you
will be safe but no Sita being Sita
decides to cross the Lakshmana Rekha she
is abducted and now here if you look at
the entire story people never blame
Robin for abducting her or people never
blame Lakshmana for deciding that he was
right when he thought he could confine
Sita to the limits of the Laxmi Lake
High and tell her that
have to be inside to be safe nobody
questions Rahm as to why he did not beat
Sita how to defend herself all we do all
we have ever heard is had had Sita
stayin with it stayed within the
confines of that Lakshmana Rekha she
would have been safe and that is exactly
what today we as a country tell above
women that in case you want to be safe
you stay within the limits what I want
to ask is who is the one who decides
these limits who is the one who sets
these limits for us how convenient it is
to confine Sita confine a woman to the
limits of Lakshmi Rekha and tell her
that this is your Rica and you have to
stay with him I am NOT going to stay
within any Lakshmi our economy can
confine me because I am blessed with
education empowerment self belief
confidence and I know I can conquer the
world when I want to and that is exactly
why I’m not going to stay within the
limits another thing that I want to
bring to your attention is that when we
hear about all the epics that are a part
of Indian culture or Indian history or
Indian mythology talk about Sarah my and
talk about mahavihara talk about
bhagavad-gita you will come to
understand that all these epochs have
been written by males everything has
been written by L by a gender that does
not understand another gender these are
all the perspective of a meal maybe
according to Valmiki Sita was not strong
enough maybe according to Viet Vyasa
Draupadi was the cause of everything but
what we need to understand is had the
things written had the things been
written differently from a different
perspective
would we be different people would we
still be sexist would we still be gender
biased and would it be a woman’s world
no absolutely not because one of the
most important characteristic of a woman
is that she is a nurturer one thing that
you cannot take away from a woman is the
fact that she is a nurturer
well I this is a topic like I said
earlier very close to my heart and I
could talk for hours and hours with
respect
to this topic Berta I see that I have
very limited time left so I’m going to
leave you with these last thoughts that
is under the garb of tradition culture
value history heritage for centuries now
women have been oppressed and suppressed
it is time we start questioning these
traditions it is time we start
questioning the heritage it is time we
start questioning the values while you
keep your values your heritage your
traditions your history close to you
remember you have to keep cells power
self belief empowerment education
awareness and above all logic closer to
yourself may logic prevail thank you so
much
[Applause]
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