"SelfieWithDaughter: This one will haunt him for ever" - Nishrin Jafri
"Careful before sharing #Selfiewithdaughter" with #LameduckPM". He has a record of stalking daughters. -Kavitha Krishnan
Last week India witnessed a tsunami of twitterati and Facebook users posting beautiful pictures with their daughters, out of my curiosity i clicked on the hashtag "Selfiewithdaughter"and it took me into a different world. Men, women, children from all walks of life from India and also from other parts of the world posted pictures with their daughters to show support for the campaign. Do check out the hashtag and it is bound to melt your heart.
But as it always happens Narendra Modi's campaign has to be criticized by some one and link it to 2002 riots to get mileage it happened over again.
To start off India currently has a sex-ratio of 918 for every 1000 males which has deteriorated from 927 in 2001, Narendra Modi launched Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao yojana this year in January..But as common sense would say allocating 150 crores cannot really change the fortune of the 2000 abortions that happen in India each day, so our beloved Prime Minister spoke to the people of India via Man Ki Baat and asked people to share pictures with their daughters, WHY?
1) From a marketing perspective it brings awareness about the campaign. 2) It brings a sense of pride among people while touching hearts . 3) It makes people realize hard facts of life.
Of course it cannot boost the sex-ratio in a day or a year, it gave our minds fodder to think how beautiful it is to witness a girl child sprout from a baby to a woman. But as we know fools exist everywhere so it did and women like Kavitha Krishnan and Shruti Seth hurled abuses and when people retaliated blamed the Indian society.
Dear Kavitha Krishnan/Shruthi Seth,
Women have not be suppressed for ages by men but by the society. First of all you calling the campaign good for nothing was a shame tag on all those who took active part in it and must have taken pride in picturing with their daughters. You cannot go around calling the Prime Minister of India who has been elected democratically by the choice of people a "Duck Face" for a campaign that supports women like you. While i totally agree that people who abused and threatened you was something that was wrong, if you were sober enough you would realize that those who abused you weren't RSS or BJP hooters but common people like you and me.
You first took a public platform to condemn a national campaign on women empowerment imagining yourself as a savior and when people responded(In a wrong way must say) you called them Hindutva activists, RSS mongers, if this isn't called "Desiring publicity" then what is it?. If you really thought selfies cannot bring in a change in this country you should have had Strong reasons for it. Reasons like Modi doesn't have a daughter himself or the 2002 riots do not stand credibility it only shows your Communist Affiliation(Kavitha Krishnan is a CPI-ML activist).You also ended the whole saga by declaring whether is it wrong to be a feminist in India. Well it is wrong to be a feminist in any country, it is about being an "Equalist" keeping in line with feminism.
Kavitha Krishnan's Blog : http://www.dailyo.in/politics/selfie-with-daughter-modi-mann-ki-baat-kavita-krishnan-twitter-aloknath/story/1/4669.html
Shruti Seth's Blog : http://www.dailyo.in/politics/narendra-modi-selfiewithdaughter-shruti-seth-twitter-trolls-muslim-secular/story/1/4721.html
