Shweta Bachchan Nanda has written a powerful letter condemning those who invade her daughter, Navya’s privacy. In the letter, she slams the paparazzi that endlessly uses click-bait headlines to garner attention to the teen’s life.
You do not know my daughter, the websites that post her pictures with captions like ‘Navya Nanda HOT pics’ or ‘Navya Nanda parties with friends, WILD’! certainly do not know her either. Nor, might I add, do they have her permission to post her private pictures. She is not a public figure. Yes, she is related to some very famous people, but that is something completely out of her control.Shweta Bachchan Nanda
Shweta points out that just because her daughter is related to “some very famous people” does not make it alright for anyone to talk about her life.
Navya’s mother also refuses to let the suggestive comments and headlines that “stop short of objectifying and shaming her” make her want to apologise or change her daughter’s behaviour.
She is a teenager, and as most young teens are wont to do, she likes to dress up, hang out with her friends, pose for pictures and yes, go out to parties (she has a deadline and is always home well before it is over). If she finds herself on a beach, she will wear beach-appropriate attire — namely, a swimsuit — as would any young girl anywhere. If there is music, she will dance much like her peers would. She will pout, she will preen, she will hang out with boys — the last time I checked, absolutely normal teenage behaviour!Shweta Bachchan Nanda
Shweta, in the end questions “what if it were your child?” She also asks “whether adults who run these sites even know how invasive and inappropriate is what they are doing? In effect, they profit off pictures stolen from my daughter’s life. If there is rock- bottom, this would be it.”
Shweta Bachchan Nanda ends with the hope that penning this letter will help to make people realise that they need to back off.
But I can write about it in the hope that the people peddling this nonsense have some shame or at least accountability, though I highly doubt they will. Perhaps if they understood that we, just like them, are human beings, trying to get about our everyday lives while making sure we give respect to the love and affection people show members of our family, couldn’t they in return give my daughter her private life back?Shweta Bachchan Nanda
(Source: DNA)
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