We all are fans of some celebrity or other. We started BookMyBai with an aim to permanently disrupt this industry and become the go-to service whenever a family needs a domestic help. There is a common saying, “Maid–You can’t live with them, you can’t live without them”.
#IS BARKHA DUTT MARRIED UPDATE#
So it is no surprise to read the latest update from the BookMyBai blog.īookMyBai is in a very high eye-ball business. “How dare a mere instructor argue with the apartment residents?” was the shocked question. I recently listened to a bunch of outraged neighbours in my 'upscale' apartment complex rant about a Karate instructor after a disagreement on fees charged by him.
#IS BARKHA DUTT MARRIED DRIVERS#
We are rude with our maids and drivers and other people who are our subordinates. So we are rude on the vast, partially anonymous world of Internet, behind the mask of fake accounts. The chances of people behaving badly increases exponentially with the chances of getting away with it.
So, if Rajdeep Sardesai is a ‘sickular journalist’, Barkha Dutt gets called a presstitute (a mangling of 'press' and 'prostitute'), and gets abused for her looks and relationships. Also, note how insults towards women are highly sexual. So Barkha becomes a sickular presstitute who is selling out our great nation. But, sadly, this very patriotism has degenerated into jingoism, and an excuse for insulting and degrading someone who doesn’t agree with us. Since Indians don’t have much in common-we speak multiple languages and dialects, practise different religions, eat different types of food-our great leaders decided to celebrate that very same diversity, a masterstroke for sure. Our country is just a land, the borders of which were decided due to hundreds of factors–wars, colonial rule, happenstance even. Now, I can scan through rude, obscene and provocative remarks by online trolls without batting an eye. However, over time, I started getting desensitised to them without even realising it. I remember there was a time when such comments used to shock or upset me. I have constantly seen these kinds of messages about Barkha Dutt, and other women journalists on Twitter and Facebook over the last few years. The tweets about my fictional husbands have underlined that the men were Muslim by way of explaining my secularism - which, of course, is a word used as a slur.” Even my Wikipedia profile is routinely edited (despite formal complaints to them) to describe me as married to these men. “I have been married off to men who either don’t exist or who do but have had no romantic connection to me. She goes on to talk about the “gossip” and “speculations” surrounding her marital status. My mobile number has been shared publicly on multiple online platforms urging people to send me abusive and threatening messages.” It is not unusual for me to get tweets that go like this: “ Tum agar randi bhi ban jaogi, phir bhi tujhe koi nahi ch*****” (even if you become a prostitute, no one will have sex with you). She says, “I have been called a whore, a ‘randi’, ‘c***', bitch and ‘presstitute' on Twitter and other social media platforms so often that now I barely notice it. Are we hiding under a cloak of fake patriotism to justify our bad behaviour?īarkha Dutt’s article in Hindustan Times titled Let’s Talk About Trolls – Online Abuse a Weapon to Silence Women, is an unpleasant read, to say the least.
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