This is crazy, one would have expect such well known, educated people to know better than to further these kinds of practises. Her father in law (to be) Amitabh Bachchan got into some trouble with some women's rights organisation a few months back for saying he wants a grandson soon (this was seen as furthering the already deeply entrenched Indian preference for the male child). I think he made a public apology for the same...

I feel that at least in a country like India where a large majority of people (especially the poor & uneducated) end up looking up to actors and sometimes even go as far as building temples for them, actors have a responsibility to set the right example & show that s...

This is crazy, one would have expect such well known, educated people to know better than to further these kinds of practises. Her father in law (to be) Amitabh Bachchan got into some trouble with some women's rights organisation a few months back for saying he wants a grandson soon (this was seen as furthering the already deeply entrenched Indian preference for the male child). I think he made a public apology for the same...

I feel that at least in a country like India where a large majority of people (especially the poor & uneducated) end up looking up to actors and sometimes even go as far as building temples for them, actors have a responsibility to set the right example & show that superstition & other baseless beliefs do not need to be followed....