Twinkle Khanna answered a question from husband actor Akshay Kumar during her book launch and managed to give a witty response. Her new book is titled Welcome To Paradise. At the event, Akshay who was at the venue, asked her if men are irrelevant as the lead characters of Twinkle s book are women. Twinkle s reply to Akshay s question about men On Saturday, Twinkle shared a glimpse of the segment from the event and revealed her answer for those, who also might feel so. Akshay Kumar asked her, All the main characters are all women. So I just want to know whether men are irrelevant, and left people at the event laughing. To this, Twinkle described men as dessert. Twinkle Khanna calls men dessert She said, No, you need dessert right To be happy. So men are important for us to enjoy ourselves and indulge. And I think that a lot of this that I could do is including going to study. I would not been able to do it if he didn t hadn t supported me the way he has.
Twinkle shifted to London with her daughter Nitara for some time, while she enrolled herself for Masters in Fiction Writing at the prestigious Goldsmiths, University of London. Sharing the post, the former actor wrote on Instagram, At the book launch he stumped me with this question about Welcome to Paradise and my brain had to do a few cartwheels to come up with a suitable answer. What answer would you have given if you were in my place While reading the book did you feel that men were irrelevant. Instagram user questions Twinkle Khanna While many praised Twinkle for her witty answer, one user was disappointed about Twinkle calling men dessert. The person commented, Can we call women a dessert and get away with it The Mela actor replied, You can t but you can blame centuries of patriarchy for your current predicament smiley face humour is always about punching up and not down. The book launch event took place at Mumbai s Taj Lands End. It was attended by Karan Johar beside Akshay Kumar.
Welcome To Paradise is a collection of women centred stories, dealing with love, marriage, loneliness and more subjects of life. Trust Twinkle Khanna to always work magic with her words. Twinkle wrote a graceful account of the concept of ageing in her new column in The Times of India. In the column, Twinkle revealed that the anxiety around turning 50 was something she thought a lot about and realized it is tougher for women to age because of the value placed on our appearance. In the column, Twinkle admitted that a routine blood test surprised her with the results of her testosterone dropping to zero. She said: For a large part of my life, I had been energetically coasting on such high levels of testosterone that in the 90s, when woke was just the antonym of sleep, I used to make jokes like, I am more of a man than most men I meet, and with the ba s as well. Now, I was left with low energy and a few leftover jokes.
