Twinkle says, “Consent has been ambiguous. That has changed and it has not only affected women.”She goes on to say, “I have worn hideous costumes, I have said terrible lines. I would be knitting on the sets of my films or reading. I don’t write about it in my columns or short stories, I don’t find it interesting. Twinkle Khanna at an event organised by YFLO in the capital. It is too familiar. All that you can find about me is in these books, in fiction,” she signs off. And her writing reflects not her early years in Bollywood when films like Mela were being made or when words like sexism and gender equality were confined to social study classes, but the present times of China Knotter Device manufacturers metoo and raging public debates around feminism.The author and actor opens up about feminism, being a misfit and embracing her ‘androgynous mind’. My grandmother taught me how to knit and ours was a nice hippie household. A lot of people told me that I talk like a man, I think like a man and I really thought that there is some man trapped inside my body.
Talking about the past, she simply says, “I don’t look back. Even five years ago, a man wouldn’t stop.It is this very attitude that has transformed the actor into a much adored author and columnist today.”With her strong opinions, Twinkle also has to handle her share of trolls.She says she won’t ever write a book about herself, “I won’t do that because it would be all lies. For someone who had also harboured a dream to be a # charted accountant, and had been pushed into Bollywood, she says, “I was always a misfit. I think men are also looking at their ingrained behaviour and it filtered into this book. That I think is the biggest problem. Someone was always reading, or knitting or playing the guitar. I have danced and done all the pelvic thrusts. I have seen it and why would I write about it. But it wasn’t like that. Now I hope people will forget Mela and remember me for my books..”Having been called a tomboy, she recalls, “I had a moustache, I didn’t use lipstick till I acted in movies.
In the capital to promote her recent book, Pyjamas are Forgiving, the actor says, “The pajama is a metaphor.”On her views on feminism, Twinkle says, “I think we keep telling women to speak up and be more independent.” But it didn’t seem like a fitting thing for an actor to do back then.”While ‘Mrs Funnybones’ has emerged out of the actor much later in life, there was no doubt about her being a ‘misfit’, as she calls herself. It is very nice to be accommodating like pajamas are, but sometimes as women we let our drawstrings too loose and before we know it we are standing in our underwear.”  Asked why she doesn’t write about Bollywood or set the book closer home in a territory she knows so well, Twinkle replies, “Bollywood is boring to me. “I was never interested in fitting in,” she tells the audience at an event organised by YFLO Delhi in the city on Thursday. As Virginia Woolf says, ‘An androgynous mind is an incandescent mind’.When Twinkle Khanna decided to pick up her pen at the age of 38, she had finally found her calling. But you have to tow the line of the hand that writes the cheque. I realised soon that my perception didn’t have a gender. So economic independence is the primary thing for women to be fearless. “But I have a thick skin because I have the biggest troll at home — my mother,” she laughs. He would try regardless.” The book taps on the importance of consent and is in a way a ‘Me-too book’.But I learnt how to laugh at myself and I think that is one of the reasons why I am here