The Bad Girl Meme Which Has Gone Viral is a Satire

Trending now on the Internet is an easy-to-follow guide on how to not to be a bad girl. Or how to be one, if you'd like. A bad girl - says a loud satirical poster being shared widely on Facebook and Twitter - pouts, smokes and drinks and eats too much or too little. And yes importantly, bad girls have breasts.

Titled 'Ek Buri Ladki (A Bad Girl)', the poster has 12 illustrations to depict qualities that set apart the bad girl. The most damning of those is that a bad girl cannot make "round rotis" (cue for plaintive violin strains in Bollywood weepy).

@cvoter both! Cry at the mindset,laugh at the absurdity! Suddenly I discovered I'm a bad girl,can't make round roti !

— nidhi bahuguna (@vinirish) February 19, 2015

@kiranmanral can't make rotis, can make a kitchen though if that helps and I first eat too much then too less :)

— Twinkle Khanna (@mrsfunnybones) February 20, 2015

She also walks outside with hair open and falls in love in a park. She goes to Goa.

A bad girl (among others) can't make round roti, has breasts, goes to Goa and falls in love in parks. Lots to do to qualify.Lol!

— esKahn (@esKahn) February 19, 2015

A bad girl has breasts! (From facebook) pic.twitter.com/iqw9k2yF60"

— Veena Venugopal (@veenavenugopal) February 19, 2015

I went to Goa. I'm a bad girl.

— Moon (@moonsez) February 19, 2015

And if you spotted your young neighbour driving a motorbike, oh yes, she is a bad girl. It is clearly a parody on retro Indian Book Depot posters that was were pinned up in classrooms decades ago, depicting everything from vegetables and numbers to good habits. Tweet:

Breathe, people. The Bad Girl thingie has to be satire.

— Sumana Mukherjee (@SumanaMukherjee) February 19, 2015

Glad this poster is getting the universal mockery it deserves RT @MedhaJaishankar How to be a "Bad Girl" in India pic.twitter.com/mx3orLypa3

— Ishaan Tharoor (@ishaantharoor) February 19, 2015

Although the poster looks very similar to one of the popular Adarsh Balak illustrations created by Mumbai-based artist Priyesh Trivedi, this isn't one of his creations. Adarsh Balak is a series of illustrations that visually resemble The Ideal Boy graphics and has a huge fan following on its Facebook page.

According to this BBC report, the meme was a college assignment by a group of students at the Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology in Bangalore created it. One of the students told BBC that as a part of their homework they were asked to juxtapose images from popular culture that women would be judged for, but men could get away with.

Either way, it is getting a lot of social media attention.