The Eloquent Ms Padukone
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The elegant and intelligent Deepika Padukone, the Bollywood film star, has been having words with The Times of India, the world’s largest circulated English newspaper, who asininely tweeted, “OMG: Deepika Padukone’s Cleavage Show”.
Finding this sort of line tiresome and crass, she re-tweeted, ” YES! I am a woman. I have breasts AND a cleavage! You got a problem!!??”.
ToI tried to justify their position in a rather lame editorial, boasting, “Deepika, just for the record, we do not zoom into a woman’s vagina or show her nipples. As a newspaper, we take every care to ensure that we pixelate them if they show up in a picture…”
So Deepka wrote a splendid rebuff to this and posted it on Facebook, asking the ToI to respect women off-screen and to behave with a little more sophistication:
“It is not about breasts, penises, or any other body part being reported. It is a matter of context and how out-of-context the reportage is just to sell a headline. And more so during a time in dire need of an attitude shift towards women.”
Bravo, Deepika, bravo!
