Acclaimed actress Nandita Das wants women to stop feeling guilty if they are unable to give their best in a job. She says women need to feel ‘no pressure to prove’ anything to the world.
She salutes the women who ‘crossed the threshold’ and took a ‘step towards freedom and, in the process, opened doors for other women’, and is proud how she was always treated like a son.
‘Yet another Woman's Day! No, can't afford to be cynical. I have consciously made sure that cynicism doesn't seep into my life and have striven to be an eternal optimist. And there are indeed good reasons to be. If I take my own life, I grew up in a family where I suffered absolutely no discrimination and, in fact, being the elder of the siblings, was the 'son' of the family.
Things have changed over the years, not because of one Jhansi Ki Rani or a Sarojini Naidu, but because of hundreds of thousands of women, who have crossed the threshold,’ she says.
She salutes the women who ‘crossed the threshold’ and took a ‘step towards freedom and, in the process, opened doors for other women’, and is proud how she was always treated like a son.
‘Yet another Woman's Day! No, can't afford to be cynical. I have consciously made sure that cynicism doesn't seep into my life and have striven to be an eternal optimist. And there are indeed good reasons to be. If I take my own life, I grew up in a family where I suffered absolutely no discrimination and, in fact, being the elder of the siblings, was the 'son' of the family.
Things have changed over the years, not because of one Jhansi Ki Rani or a Sarojini Naidu, but because of hundreds of thousands of women, who have crossed the threshold,’ she says.