Punjabis Can Indeed Dance: Smriti Irani

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    • Publish Date: Apr 18 2017 4:54PM
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    • Updated Date: Apr 18 2017 5:22PM
Punjabis Can Indeed Dance: Smriti Irani

NEW DELHI: A delighted Smriti Irani yesterday agreed with a tweeter that "Punjabis can dance". A tweeter wrote: "Punjabis can dance on any music.....because they're born with their own rhythm" Irani replied. "Agreed!!! Paajis pao Bhangra," the textiles minister replied to the tweet that also referenced an old television show of hers 'Kyunki Saas bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi'.

Irani, a former television star, has not been active on social media much lately. She sure retweets a lot, but doesn't any more tweet her unique take on things like she did when she was HRD minister. Back then, she brooked no criticism from the opposition, fiercely attacking them on Twitter and with Facebook (FB) posts. In one such memorable FB post titled "Why Zip It", she talked about not being silent just because one is a woman. She recalled how when she was younger, people would tell girls to not respond - "no matter how humiliated" - when boys accosted them. "But there would be those rebellious kinds (yours truly included), who would question why? Why not respond? Why zip it?" Irani wrote.
 
The central minister, after chronicling her ministerial achievements, had this bit of advice for women - "So to those girls walking with their heads down, look up and speak up; those women cracking the whip in their offices and asking their counterparts to finish the work assigned in the time frame prescribed, lead on." And she signed off as "Aunty National."

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I am also a Punjabi and indeed, Punjabis can dance very well.

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