Journalism of Courage
Twinkle Khanna is celebrating her 47th birthday on December 29. Author and former actor, Twinkle plays several roles. She is an author, a newspaper columnist, an interior designer, a film producer, and of course a very protective mother of two, son Aarav and daughter Nitara. (Photo: Twinkle Khanna/Instagram)
Twinkle Khanna and Akshay Kumar are certainly the power couple of B-town. (Photo: Twinkle Khanna/Instagram)
Akshay and Twinkle got married in 2001, and have two children together — son Aarav and daughter Nitara. (Photo: Twinkle Khanna/Instagram)
Both Akshay and Twinkle keep their children away from the public eye. (Photo: Twinkle Khanna/Instagram)
Twinkle Khanna once opened up about her struggles to maintain the privacy of her kids in the wake of the intense media scrutiny. (Photo: Twinkle Khanna/Instagram)
"It has become increasingly difficult to keep our children shielded within our fishbowl existence but I also console myself with the fact that this generation growing up with social media at the forefront is probably more equipped to handle the glare of the spotlight than we were," Twinkle was quoted as saying to IANS. (Photo: Twinkle Khanna/Instagram)
Twinkle is the daughter of actors Rajesh Khanna and Dimple Kapadia. (Photo: Twinkle Khanna/Instagram)
Twinkle, in a conversation with Sudha Murthy, Chairperson of the Infosys Foundation on the Tweak India YouTube channel, revealed what she told son Aarav when he asked why they're rich and others aren't. (Photo: Twinkle Khanna/Instagram)
Twinkle shared, "One day, my son asked, ‘Why do I have all these things and those people don't?’ And I told him, ‘When you’re born with a silver spoon in your mouth, it's your responsibility to use that. Even if it's not a silver spoon, maybe it's a plastic spoon. But if you have any spoon of any sort, you use that you scoop up some porridge and give it someone who doesn't have it'." (Photo: Twinkle Khanna/Instagram)
She continued, “And I think from that day, I've also seen him looking at life differently and also realising that privilege is a platform which can be used to help other people.” (Photo: Twinkle Khanna/Instagram)
Twinkle Khanna shared this click with her daughter and confessed about the mother's guilt that she lives with. "A mother needs to keep an eye on her child’s mind as much as she does on her homework. She must follow the tendrils of her thoughts, and each time she sees something askew, she has to nudge it back in place and she needs to do this every single day. I may be far from perfect and I live with that guilt like most other members that belong to this tribe, but if I can do this much, then that’s good enough and perhaps good enough is as marvelous as we all need to be," wrote the doting mother. (Photo: Twinkle Khanna/Instagram)
Twinkle is the author of three bestselling books. (Photo: Twinkle Khanna/Instagram)
