Actor Amitabh Bachchan’s granddaughter Navya Naveli Nanda has spoken openly about how a family treats a daughter differently than a son. She talked about the fact that in her family, she was also supposed to take care of guests or do housework, not her brother.
Navya Naveli Nanda is the daughter of Amitabh’s daughter Shweta Bachchan and businessman Nikhil Nanda. She has a younger brother named Agastia Nanda.
While speaking with SheThePeople, Navya opened up about the situation at her home. “I’ve experienced it at home, when we have guests, my mom always says go get this or get that, and I have to play the host, not like my brother can do that,” she said.
“So I think, especially in a house where you live with a shared family, the responsibility of learning how to run the house, how to take care of guests or how to entertain guests always falls on the daughter. And I’ve never met my brother or Any little boy in the family is so valued. I think it’s our duty to convince women that it is our duty to take care of the family,” she added.
In the comments section of the video, filmmaker Zoya Akhtar posted an applause emoji in support of Navya. Others echoed Navya’s thoughts. “Like charity starts at home…proper parenting starts at home…you are building a future, be careful,” one wrote. “If I dare to get up after 7:30am on weekends, I will be scolding,” another commented.
Navya often speaks about gender issues on social media. She also runs Aara Health and Project Naveli, two organisations focussed on betterment of women. Previously, in a chat with Miss Malini, Navya spoke about how her mother and grandmother put their needs second to the family’s. “Women inherently prioritise the health and well being of their family over themselves. I have seen that happen at my own home with my grandmother and my mother. They are the sole caregivers. Because of that, they are always taking care of the family, the husband and the children. I don’t think their own health, mental or physical is a priority. That stems from the gender roles we force as a society and that’s where the patriarchy and misogyny comes in where men have always been the head of the family and breadwinners, and the woman the caretaker. That, I think, has caused a big disparity in terms of how women even look at health and prioritise their own well being,” she had said.
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