‘Powerpuff Girls’ recall tales of the soul sisters

Neha Saini

Tribune News service

Amritsar, February 12

Sharing some sisterhood goals and a lot of interesting inside stories with women at FICCI FLO’s Best Friends’ Stories, actor, anchor and successful entrepreneurs Mini Mathur, Maria Gorreti and author-producer Jaya Misra made the otherwise mundane Tuesday afternoon eventful.

The three have been best friends forever and having each other’s back is what they have been doing ever since.

“Women have always been each other’s soul sisters. Sisterhood is what could solve a lot of issues in the world and are here to celebrate the BFFs who are pulling each other up rather than putting each other down,” said Maria, who is a gourmet chef and took a workshop on healthy cooking later in the evening.

Their friendship is three decades long and all of them say that their bonding is more than a 3 am call. “We have been through everything together — heartbreaks, professional ups and downs and personal loss. But somehow, we have been able to pick each other up from the crisis,” said Maria.

Author Jaya Misra, though, has a different take on their relationship. “I feel that our bonding is quite similar to what a husband and wife bonding is or should be. I think Maria and Mini are the couple and I am the mistress because whenever they have a problem with each other, I am the one listening to each of them cribbing about it,” she added, wits intact.

The women also do not believe in mincing any words when it comes to burning issues such as #MeToo and labels. “This is the first time in 2,000 years that women are actually coming up and talking about things like feminism, sexual harassment, wage disparity and so on. It is a good thing and the concept of feminism and such are not complex but rather good exhalation of everything that is woman,” said Mini.

In a league of her own

Jaya Misra, who has been a producer and scriptwriter, released her book, Kama — the story of Kamasutra, with a fictional story set in 273AD and Vatsyayana as a protagonist. The author feels that the subject needed to be highlighted since it is relevant through times. 

“I was quite happy with the response my book has received as it was seen as work of literature and not otherwise. I tried to write it as a sensual and romantic story rather than depicting only the sexual part of the subject.” 

As an author who fiddled with the subject of erotica, Misra said this particular genre of writing needs good storytellers. “It is still a taboo subject, but some great work is happening with some promising writers trying to bring in interesting stories,” she said.