"The very first thing I stopped giving a damn about was caring what other people think."
Actor Swara Bhasker
The OUTSPOKEN actor is here to REWRITE the RULES, not live life by FICTIONAL DEADLINES given to her, and pave her OWN PATH to SUCCESS. And along the way, Swara PLANS to stay VOCAL about the VALUES she BELIEVES in, despite the naysayers that try to stop her.
Interview By: Nandini Bhalla
''The last thing I said 'screw it' to was the pressure to be married by a specific time. You know, the checklist that women often bear the burden of...to find a partner at any cost and settle down by a certain age. This pressure never bothered me until I hit my mid-30s, and suddenly it became a thing, a discussion point, especially when everyone around me seemed to be getting married and having babies. I think a lot of South Asian women and women around the world feel this pressure to reach certain milestones by certain points in their lives. And they could be extremely successful and living full lives otherwise, but these expectations around marriage remain. So I went through a phase of being very self-conscious about the fact that I am single, and how there is absolutely no-one on the horizon. And even though I come from a very liberal, progressive family, I felt like I had failed my parents in some way. It bothered me a lot, and then finally, I was like...screw it!
This story is from the September - October 2022 edition of Cosmopolitan India.
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