Twinkle Khanna Bashes Hypocritical Reactions To The AIB Roast, Says We Have Bigger Problems At Hand

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Twinkle Khanna Bashes Hypocritical Reactions To The AIB Roast, Says We Have Bigger Problems At Hand


Designer Twinkle Khanna has never hesitated to call a spade a spade. This time, the former Bollywood actress has spoken up in support of the infamous All India Bakchod Knockout in her column, 'Mrs Funnybones' for The The Times Of India. Twinkle openly bashed the hypocrisy of people who were hating the Roast and said there are many more important issues at hand that deserve more attention.



Here are excerpts from the column:

"A great man that fought for the freedom of this country said: ‘Civilization is the encouragement of differences.’ And I wonder how from a race of tolerant people who even won their freedom in a non-reactive manner, we have changed to a country that has decided to be offended by arbitrary things; but being Indian, let me also join my fellow men for a minute, in listing down what may or may not offend me.
In the last few months, we have been offended by Obama’s chewing gum, Modi’s suit, Kiran Bedi for various reasons and, of course, by the infamous roast.

If I had to be offended by a live show I would rather be offended by Arnab who invites people on his show and then doesn’t let them speak. I saw an episode where he is asking the education minister a question and then screaming over her answers.

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Now that’s just bad manners, at least in the AIB roast they called guests over, let them say their bit, people laughed and went home. But we still have to get outraged even though they had made it clear that the show is for adults only.

We now also have an assortment of people up in arms about the gags made on a person’s sexuality but shouldn’t we be more offended by the fact that homosexuality is considered illegal in India and that Section 377 still exists?
The jokes about dark skin offend us because deep down, some of us idiotically think that having dark skin is a shortcoming. Would we be as offended if jokes were made about having fair skin like, ‘You are so fair that you were thrown out of the Nirma washing powder commercial for being whiter than the washed shirt.’?

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