FTL- ISSUE 3. WOMEN'S DAY EDITION

INSIDE: Interviewing Zinal Shah from Payal&Zinal about her latest collection

Zumba Trainers Regime & Diet Plan!

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PADMA!

Travel Story!

THAR DESERT

50 Inspirational Women

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Thank You Everyone for your HARDWORK & EFFORTS! CHEERS TO SUCCESS!

THEME!

WOMEN’S DAY SPECIAL!

Women are more powerful than they think they are, they can do what they think they can be a housewife, a business women & a parent all at once!

BE PROUD! YOU LADY!

Be YOU, You are GORGEOUS the way you are!

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CERTIFIED ZUMBA INSTRUCTOR: HETAL

PAYAL & ZINAL

PADMA COLLECTION

INTERVIEW WITH: ZINAL SHAH FROM PAYAL&ZINAL Shreya Desai: hello everyone, this is Shreya from FTL, interviewing Zinal Shah from “Payal and Zinal studio Vadodara” Hi Zinal Zinal Shah: Hi S: how are you?

Z: I’m good, Thank you. How are you?

S: I’m fine. Can we start with the interview?

Z: yeah sure S: what inspired you to be become a fashion designer?

Z: so, ever since childhood, you know that all of us have that fantasy to play with Barbie dolls but I always wanted to dress them up than playing with them. It was always about dressing them up.

So yeah, since childhood I’ve always had this thing for fashion designer and I want to dress up everyone with their comfort zone so somehow that relates me and somehow that keeps me going and yeah that’s the reason I wanted to be a Fashion designer S: from when did you start your career?

Z: um so I started my career... I did my 12th from Vadodara and I did my bachelors from Symbiosis, Pune so yeah I have done 4 year course so yeah I and Payal did our course from symbiosis S: how did you think of starting Payal and Zinal?

Z: so okay it’s a very funny story but then you know Payal was my classmate and I always had that feeling that she is my competitor and somehow she also had the same feeling. We shared the mutual feeling. So everyone had their degree project so we also had our degree project and then we were like let’s do this together instead of being a competitor. Let’s make our team very strong and do it together. So we thought of doing a degree project together and that’s how Payal and I started to do things together.

S: that’s good S: what was your very first collection?

Z: so as I said, our very first collection was our degree project which was inspired by life story and it was all about androgyny and 2016 was all about androgyny and people weren’t aware about those kind of fashion or people went accepting it and it was a big hit on the runway so yeah S: any achievements from that collection?

Z: so yeah we got lots of newspaper articles and stuff but as I said it was not in fashion, like not in fashion but people don’t accept it so the negative part S: tell me something about your latest collection?

Z: so okay, “Padma” it’s all the religions. As I said, Hinduism, Buddhism and Egyptians. The goddess, the goddess is all associate with Padma. Padma is lotus. I’m Hindi language, lotus is called Padma so that’s how we’ve named this collection Padma.

We got inspired from lotus. Lotus is a very feminine sort of, soothing and relaxing.

When you think about lotus, you think about all these qualities and when you see a color pallet it goes like how lotus has its very pinkish color at the top. So thinking about the qualities of the lotus that you know from all the negativity it comes to a very pure flower when you think about lotus. So it was a turning point for us also because we thought of starting something new because as I said that androgyny, people wouldn’t accept it here. At least in Gujarat, people wouldn’t accept the collection so you know it was turning point for us also to start with such collection so thinking from clients and people’s point of view and for us also, we wanted to bring some change in our patterns, designs and collections so we thought of something like this. And lotus was the best thing for us to do it that how it civilizes from the negativity, it comes to a pure thing so you know we thought of starting a pure and fresh collection.

That’s how we chose our expedition.

S: how many shows have you done?

Z: till now, we’ve done three shows. The first one is obviously our college show. The second is we got selected into top five for India runway week. And the third one is the 6degree platform which we had done recently in Ahmedabad.

S: Thankyou Zinal Z: Thank you so much

50 INSPIRATIONAL WOMEN

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TRIBUTE TO SRIDEVI KAPOOR

Sridevi Kapoor (13 August 1963- 24 February 2018) Indian actress and a film producer in Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, and Kannada films.

Got Padma Shri in 2013 She started working at the age of 4 She had a debut as a child artist in Tamil, Hindi, and Teluguin total 16 films.

At the age of 13 she got the first leading role in Tamil films and also Telugu in total 15 films.

She made her debut as child artist in Kannada and Malayalam films in total 13 films.

There are many more (18 films) Telugu films in which she have worked in.

Sridevi made her debut as a heroine in Hindi films from year 1979-1986 29 films.

In next 9 years she had her debut in more 11 films.

She briefly returned to the small screen in 6 TV series.

She had her comeback in 2 Hindi films English Vinglish (2011) and mom (2017) and Tamil films in Public (2015) She also had an appearance in song Apana Bombay Talkies in 2013 Sridevi was considered one of the biggest female superstar in Bollywood films. She was considered to be one of the most popular actress of Indian cinema.

Sridevi was also voted “India’s Greatest Actress in 100 years”.

She was considered one of the very few Indian female superstar capable of huge box-office success without the support of a male hero.

Civilian Awards

1991- Order of Afghanistan for Khuda Gawah 2013- Padma Shri Filmfare Awards 1992/1990/1991/1982- Filmfare Best Actress Award for Lamhe, ChaalBaaz, Kshana Kshanam (Telugu), Meendum Kokila (Tamil).

In 1977 Filmfare Special award south for 16 Vayathinile.

Filmfare Awards Nominations 1984/1990/1993/1994/1995/1998/2013/2018- Filmfare Best Actress Award for Sadma, Chandni, Khuda Gawah, Gumrah, Laadla, Judaai, English Vinglish, and MOM Filmfare Glamour and Style Awards 2015- Ultimate Diva Award BIG Star Entertainment Awards2012- Most Entertaining Actor in a social drama film for English Vinglish 1981- Tamil Nadu State film Award for best actress for Moondram Pirai.

Stardust Awards Best Actress Drama for English Vinglish in 2013 2013- NDTV entertainer of the year, India Today Woman in Arts, Empress of Indian Cinema Special Honours 1990- Smita Patil Memorial Award for Contribution to Indian Cinema 1997- Kalasarasqathi Award by government of Andhra Pradesh 2003- Lachchu Maharaj Award 2003- Vamsee international Award for Contribution in Indian Cinema 2003- MAMI Award in contribution to Indian Cinema 2008- FICCI Living Legend in Entertainment Award 2009- Special Honour at 33rd Cairo international film festival for Contribution to Hindi cinema 2013- Honoured by government of Kerala for Contribution to cinema 2013- Voted Indian Greatest Actress of all time 2013- President of India Medallion of Honour for Contribution to 100 years of Indian cinema 2013- Jagran Film festival best actress award for English Vinglish 2014- ANR national awards for 2013 2014- Inspiring Icon award from Sathyabama University 2014- Special Honour at 2nd Hiru Golden film festival for Contribution to Asian Cinema 2012- Most Admired Bollywood Actress 2012- Ranked no. 1 as Bollywood 10 best Actress of 2012 by Rediff, box office capsule, CNN IBN, Koimoi, Bollyspice, Bollywoodlife, 2017- Best Actor for mom by Zee Cine Awards

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Bhavya Gupta’s Travel Story THAR DESERT

WHAT COMMON WOMEN’S HAVE TO SAY: How would you describe a women?

Her tests only starts when she enters the face of motherhood she doesn’t realise it when she is unmarried.

Gradually with experience and when she conceives child her womanhood is complete. And she gets even more experienced. She goes threw a lots of trials because she is giving a new life. And she transformed completely after child birth. Also she has to face the world simultaneously.

What is a women to you?

Women power is great. Now I am give you my example, I was all good before even now I am good, but I don’t understand whether god has done good to me or worse. I can say one thing that Rohan and Ronak came into my life. Who are extremely close to me, I have become strong as a person. Because suddenly I was faced with lot of hand ships but I came out of it. Because they have made me so strong. It is not easy to handle things alone but there is a god given strength in every women than even after marriage and childbirth she carries on and then self confidence in increased and she feels proud of the fact that the power of women is great. God has given her the power to surpass any difficulty in life.

YOGAL VORA What is women to you?

What is according to you one the challenges faced by a women in Indian society?

Right from the beginning, she has to fight for her survival. First she has to fight for her birth and once she is born she has to fight for basic necessities like education, the discrimination etc. After all these if she has to follow her dreams & create her own identity only one in hundred can do that.

Have you ever faced a challenge which made you more strong?

Not exactly. Because my childhood was not an average Indian girls childhood. My parents were foresighted and gave us all the opportunities. We were 2 sisters and a brother, but all of us were raised the same way.

How is it to raise two equally ambitious daughter? What are the difficulties which you have to face?

As a mother, I feel people think parents want to suppress these daughters, but it is not so the circumstances make the mother fearful not a women. As a women I would want my children to reach heights but than as a mother you try to give a laid back approach. It all depends on what profession you choose, that will guarantee your safety.

How, there should be a professional approach of people but the basic mind-set has not changed even today.

SANGITA JAGANATH

QUEST: Hi, Uttara Uttara:Hi, Ukti. How are you?

QUEST: How is it like to be a women for you and what difficulties do you face?

Uttara:First of all it’s beautiful, it’s beautiful being a women if I get a choice to change my gender I wouldn’t. I feel proud to be a person who can withstand so many obstacles so many difficulties and still surpass everything and everyone without complaining. I don’t think men can do that. Not that I am competing here. But ya, as per the difficulties I think the only difficulty for me is the society perception. I am not complaining about periods or other hormonal, hormones related stress but I wish the society would change their perception towards women and hail them instead of putting them down. I think that would solve lot of problems.

QUEST: What is the major difficulty you are facing currently?

Uttara: This is very simple thing but I love staying out at night. It’s something that I would give anything to do that I love nights I am not a morning person. Nights are quite, they are peaceful, they are beautiful, and they are silly. And what would I not give to have an all-nighter daily but only and only because I am a girl I don’t get to do it ,for whatever reasons, safety, parental concern or whatever. It’s something that would have been different had I not be a women but then that’s what I said you know I am going back what I said before about your previous question that, if the society changes its perception towards women that problem can be solved. If we start treating women as a human being first instead of a women first lot of things changes.

QUEST:Lot of people think that the girls being at the age of 23/24 should get married, what are your perception about that? Do we actually a right age to get married?

Uttara: See marriage is very important thing, it’s one of the most important things in life so, I am not against people or the idea of getting married early. It all depend on what you want to do in life. If somebody who is looking forward to marriage, who is looking forward to a life partner, who wants to have 2-3 children, then yes 25 is a right age to get married because you get lot of time to settle, you get time to spend with your partner, you can eventually plan kids, but if there’s somebody who is not looking forward to marriage or who wants to do things which may not circumscribe to a normal married life, then there should absolutely no pressure whether it’s a men or a women. And marriage makes lots of responsibility and at the age when you feel you willing to face all those responsibilities, all those pressures, you willing to kind of settle down that is the right age to get married. Their no fixed age. But yes like I said, if you always thought of getting married, if marriage is an idea that accepts you then definitely 25 is a right age. So it all depends on what you want.

QUEST: So I was interviewing your mother, before some time and I had a question for her that how is it raising two young daughters who are passionate about their careers and what is the fear that you are facing so she told me that the fear is like when you are a women you think fearlessly but when you are a mother you have that worries in your mind that they are girls and they have to face the world, she always get worried that you have to go out and face those cruel world in the industry you are working for. So do you want to say about that?

Uttara: It’s not just girls it’s guys and girls. If she is talking about exploitation, it happens to anyone and everyone it’s not just for women first of all. But what she has to realize is that you are always given a choice.

So whatever happens whenever happens, just because the industry I wish to work for is gets a lot of media attention people had that liberty, people take that liberty to talk ill about it. Exploitation, harassment, sexual harassment happens in every field. You go into a corporate house you dig deeper you will find how many female employees are harassed by their bosses daily. So it’s not just this industry it happens anywhere and everywhere and as times are changing.

UTTARA

Interviewer: What pride you take in being a Woman?

Binita: I am very proud to be a woman because I believe in myself, women are the backbone of the family.

Interviewer: According to you what is a women’s responsibility?

Binita: Lots of responsibilities are on women’s shoulder her house, her work, her family. 24*7 she is on her toes working for everybody. She is the power to everyone, even though she won’t like a thing she will do everything with a smile on her face.

Interviewer: How do you feel when you are not given equal right as a man?

Binita: Now a days there is no barrier between a man and a woman. In fact I feel we have more rights than men’s. We are more ahead than them.

Interviewer: Which Woman inspires you? Why? Binita: I am very much inspired by Lata Mangeshkar, it is because of her dedication for the music is priceless. She has given her whole life to a thing she has always loved. She is an example that women can do what she loves, through music she has won lot of hearts and given lot to the world. So I am inspired by her.

Interviewer: How do you manage work and home both?

Binita: I am a dedicated wife and mother and I love to balance both my work and home, so anything doesn’t misplace in my life for me. I spend enough time with my family- which is very important for me and I am a dedicated teacher as well being in this profession since last 32 years. I don’t bring work and home together, they are both at their places.

BINITA VAIDYA Are you proud of being a women? Why? Obviously. Why is quite invalid because being a women is a matter of prestige and you guys must have heard from lot of women that women can do many work multitasking to handling all the emotions together to handling a personal and professional life and bottom. So being a women every day is a new day and every hour is a new opportunity to do something different and haven’t stepped in a looser for male so I don’t know how it is for them but definitely for women it is an adventurous journey. So being a women always matters.

What do you think are we lacking behind like we are not getting a same level as men do.? Are we lacking behind or is it the society that is not allowing as to reach the position men are actually are at.?

Yes the society definitely, without any doubt because it’s like people will say it’s their work and saying is easy but doing is very difficult. But actually when people start saying then we don’t listen. So one which is the perspective of the society and two we have the guts to listen to what they say and ignore and move forward because India is our development and . So if you want to see women equal to men, the woman has to accept few facts and just move on. If someone wants to go in modeling then people will talk that how can she got in that type of industry, but I want to go it’s my wish I want to go for my development, by your saying it is not your development. So as you said as we are lacking in the acceptance what society says and society is lacking in the acceptance the fact that men and women are equal.

We have lot of things in our family like girls are not allowed to sit in pooja, else go to temple, she can’t enter the kitchen, and she can’t touch the utensils if they are in periods. Do you believe in such kind of things?

Thank you for asking me this question. Firstly is not impurity because we are getting pure because impurity is getting out of our body. So it should be allowed to go to temples because you are getting purer, getting into the purest form. So I definitely don’t believe in all this because it’s natural. If god have given this then why we are feeling ashamed to face them. Not touching and sit in place or the room. What is going to happen by this, 5 days are going get over one day and they are going to come every month it’s not like it’s going to get over this month. So I completely don’t believe in it. And we can do our best for spreading the awareness.

So you are a social worker. Have you got any cases in which women are included?

Yes I have done lots of social work and seen such situations. We have been to a survey at Dahej and I interviewed a lady for the survey that we were doing, I got to know her mother’s case, she died when the lady was quite young and a mother died because of breast cancer now in rural area there is no awareness what breast cancer is. She was wearing a proper blouse and a saree her blouse was pure red until she was now knowing that this much has happened inside cancer cells are increased. Her breast was swollen she didn’t know that.

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