On Our Girls, Our Pride: Aamir, Priyanka, SRK
Bollywood star Aamir Khan kick-started the NDTV-Vedanta Our Girls Our Pride Telethon happening today by sponsoring the education of five girls.
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Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan featured on the NDTV-Vedanta Our Girls Our Pride Telethon on December 1.
SRK says he has been brought up to believe in 'Ladies First.' He says girls look after their parents better and if there is anyone who thinks twice about having a girl child, it is unfortunate. -
SRK, who sent us this picture from Dubai where he will be performing at his Temptation Reloaded concert, is sponsoring the education of 125 girls. He also stressed on the need for giving women the weapons of mass education since they were the most underutilised resources in the world.
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Bollywood star Aamir Khan kick-started the telethon by sponsoring the education of five girls. Aamir, who highlighted issues like female foeticide on his TV show Satyamev Jayate, told NDTV's Vikram Chandra that mindsets are India's biggest problem today and we need to work on changing them.
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Filmmaker Karan Johar, who pledged to support 83 girls, told Priyanka that a lot of women had influenced his life and work and the level of compassion and patience a woman brings is much more than a man is capable of. He added that if he ever adopted, it would be a baby girl.
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Tennis ace Sania Mirza confided that when she started her career people were more concerned about what she was wearing than about her game. Her own family members were more worried about her getting tanned and not finding a good husband than about anything else.
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Vicky Donor actor Ayushmann Khurrana says that in his home state of Haryana, things have really changed after 2006 after the Right to Education Act. The number of females has increased in classrooms due to better transport facilities. He also recited a heartrending poem Ek Ladki Jo Bachpan Mein Badi Hogi which he had himself composed.
Entrepreneur Shehnaz Hussain stressed on the need for financial independence of women.
