Celebrity Speak: Shashi Tharoor
On December 9, 2007, Former U.N. Undersecretary General and Breakthrough board member Shashi Tharoor wrote in The Hindu, “It is one of the most shameful aspects of human civilisation that we have entered the 21st century having failed to end a practice that has already blighted the other 20 — the practice of using violence against women.”
Mr Tharoor went on to write about the the widespread prevelance of violence against women across the world and prophetically concluded, “What is needed is social change, and that comes painfully slowly in our country. A national campaign to shame every man who assaults a woman might be one way — of using the mass media to change the masses. There’s a challenge to the more public-spirited of our PR and advertising gurus. Are they man enough to take it on?”
Not surprisingly, a little less than a year later, Bell Bajao debuted on Indian Television. Now on the occasion of International Women’ Day, Mr Tharoor states that communities should be intolerant of domestic violence.
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Mr Tharoor is on the Board of Breakthrough and has been actively writing about and supporting human rights through his work. He featured Breakthrough as the charity close to his heart in Forbes in December last year.
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