Lisa calls out newspaper's ‘casual sexism’

Lisa Ray turned writer along with her memoir Close To The Bone. However, the actress was enraged on Friday when she noticed a racy symbol used in an editorial in a newspaper. In an editorial about her memoir, a Kolkata-based newspaper used a racy picture of Lisa.

Posting a snippet of the item, Lisa wrote on Instagram, “Does any individual else see the irony in the use of THIS symbol - instead of an writer symbol supplied via my writer - for an editorial about my memoir @CloseToTheBone_ the place I talk about suffering as a ladies with overcoming sexist stereotypes? Just landed in #Kolkata and I must say I’m upset With #TheTelegraph except I’m missing the punchline? I’ve written extensive in this means of casual sexism all through the 90s in India in @closetothebone.ebook but it kind of feels it nonetheless persists. We NEED to modify the narrative. What say?”


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Does any individual else see the irony in the use of THIS symbol - instead of an writer symbol supplied via my writer - for an editorial about my memoir @CloseToTheBone_ the place I talk about suffering as a ladies with overcoming sexist stereotypes? Just landed in #Kolkata and I must say I’m upset With #TheTelegraph except I’m missing the punchline? I’ve written extensive in this means of casual sexism all through the 90s in India in @closetothebone.ebook but it kind of feels it nonetheless persists. We NEED to modify the narrative. What say?

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In the item, in the beginning printed via information company PTI, Lisa spoke about being known as a “intercourse image”. She had stated, “I hate to be labelled and put into containers but I needed to take care of it since a young age as a result of I was a intercourse image on the age of 16. It was completely unanticipated. To unexpectedly turn out to be this figure for a complete nation and on top of that, to appear much older, that has haunted me my complete existence up until now.”


“So, I selected to look at the purple carpet even if I was 41-pound overweight because of the steroid use for my most cancers treatment...That was a breaking second for me to speak about something this is deeply personal,” she stated.
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