TLI Staff
New Delhi: Shah Rukh Khan is a doting father and likes to spend a lot of time in the company of his three children Aryan, Suhana and AbRam. He often cooks for them at odd hours, help them buy presents for their friends and advises them. The actor, however, realised something important while shooting an episode of TED Talks Nayi Baat with Deepa Narayan, a social scientist and author who talks about habits that crush Indian women to speak up.
The theme for the said episode is Bharat Ka Better Half, where Deepa Narayan will share her work and learning she has done over the past five years. Her latest book, “Chup: Breaking the Silence About India’s Women’, for which she interviewed 600 women, men and children, reveals that silence is the thread that binds India’s women and men. She says our narrow definitions and expectations of good girls and good women and men’s expectation of girls as fathers actually oppose their efforts to empower girls through education and employment.
The speaker says to both women and men, “To change, don’t always think of big things, you don’t need money, you don’t need education, you just have to change your daily habits, one by one, at home, on the streets, in offices, everywhere you go. It’s not about shame or blame. Just change.”
“I keep telling Suhana, if you don’t smile, I will not be happy. But I apologize to you for putting pressure for my own happiness. I want to tell everyone that it is ok if you one wants to be sad, angry, happy, whatever she needs to be flexible,” said SRK during the episode.
Watch TED Talks India Nayi Baat Saturday – Sunday at 9:30PM only on Star Plus.
Watch the trailer of the episode: