Former Bollywood star and author Twinkle Khanna has had an important conversation about aging and makeup. The columnist pointed out that women over 50 often feel shy when it comes to wearing red lipstick.
In a recent video she shared, Twinkle openly discussed how women of a certain age may feel embarrassed about wearing red lipstick. She even demonstrated this by wearing red lipstick in the video to gauge people’s reactions.
She wrote her on Instagram, “Do you see an age limit written on this lipstick? What unwanted makeup advice have you received recently?”
Last year, Twinkle, the daughter of Bollywood legends Rajesh Khanna and Dimple Kapadia and wife of action star Akshay Kumar, celebrated her 50th birthday.
In a surprise announcement on Thursday night, Taylor Swift said that she was dropping three un-released songs in celebration of the upcoming Era tour which is starting today in Glendale, Arizona.
On her Instagram page, Swift revealed that the three songs were Safe and Sound (Taylor’s Version) featuring the former members of The Civil Wars, Joy Williams and John Paul White, Eyes Open (Taylor’s Version) , If This Was A Movie (Taylor’s Version) and All Of The Girls You Loved Before.
You can listen to these songs on Spotify
Swift also shared teaser of her practicing for the upcoming Era’s tour, with the caption:
Students, rights activists, lawyers,
labourers and even politicians on Friday joined hands to hold countrywide
Students’ Solidarity March as they raised awareness about what they called was
the persisting “educational crisis” facing Pakistan.
Among many allegations leveled against the marchers, who were protesting against fee hikes and the policies affecting them, and were demanding a conducive educational environment, was that they were “driven by foreign powers” and were “being misused for someone’s vested interests”.
Eyebrows were also raised over the fact that major parts of the country turned red as people from all walks of life in over 50 cities took to roads; wearing red, holding daunting placards, raising full-throat slogans against the system and waving red flags.
Banners at the March in Lahore
Red is a colour long-misconstrued by many first-world countries and some like Pakistan — the ones that participated in the Soviet-Afghan War that insurgent groups fought against the Soviet Army and the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan government.
But while “Red Scare” is not a term unfamiliar
to many, the colour red has a deep history that these students refer to and it is
not all about the red flags that communists used.
Even though it is predominantly a symbol of socialism, communism and Marxism, it has been associated with left-wing politics since the French Revolution that overthrew the monarchy and established a republic in the late 18th century.
For these students, it signifies the blood of those spilt in acts of brute force anywhere in the world and the call for change in times of dire need. It signifies resistance.
Ghinwa Bhutto at the March wearing red
“From Chicago’s Haymarket Square Massacre
to people from the downtrodden segments of the society committing suicide in modern
times, from people belonging to the Indo-Pak subcontinent who lost their lives
in the World Wars to the farmers bearing the brunt of poor economic policies…
it represents the blood of all those students who have ended their lives
because of this rotten system,” said one student activist with a red scarf
around his neck.
When asked about the person or entity they referred to while raising the slogan ‘jab laal laal lehrayega tab hosh thikanay ayega’, another student activist stepped up to clarify.
The March across Pakistan
“We are addressing the ruling elite and
referring to the industrialists who exploit the poor. We speak of administration
of educational institutions that treat students like customers and have made
campuses nothing less than prisons,” she said.
“None of them represent us, but they are
the ones who rule us. We need better representation within the corridors of
power. We… the people… the working class,” the activist maintained, adding that
the colour red represented the power of the people.
STUDENTS’
SOLIDARITY MARCH:
Earlier, ministers, leaders of opposition parties, journalists as well as rights activists voiced their support for the marchers as the 2019 edition of the Students’ Solidarity March kicked off. The march was held in Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Quetta, Gilgit, parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), Azad Jammu & Kashmir (AJK) and interior Sindh.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqnmOHKW3ss
What did these students want?
They demanded the revival of student unions
and solution to the problems being faced by them and their peers.
The protesting students said the Pakistan
Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government had left them dejected and directionless and
reduced the higher education budget to almost half, bringing Pakistan into the
list of countries that spend very less on education.
