New Delhi: The festival of Navratri 2025 begins, actress Isha Koppikar is using a moment to embrace strength from all over the country, break chakras and urge to live with unpleasant confidence. Known for her bold stance on women empowerment, she has shared the nine powerful changes she expects to bring women to their lives and communities.
“This Navratri, I am not just celebrating the goddess. I am asking all of us to adopt her,” she says. “We need to stop standing in silence when other women are speaking. If you are not part of the voice, you are silent and part of the problem.”
His message is beyond worship, this is a call for cultural change. “It all starts at home. What we teach, or do not teach our children about equality and respect, which will shape the next generation. Let’s increase better humans.”
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Encouraging women to support each other instead of competing, she says, “Be a girl’s girl. Do not support, not sabotage. We have been airing to compete when we should cheer each other.”
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In a world that constantly seeks external verification, Isha reminds women to find within their value. “Stop waiting for approval. Start celebrating yourself, loud and proud,” she says. On breaking the inherited mentality, she insists, “Break the cycle whether it is social or generation. Just because it has always been in this way that it does not mean that it should live in that way.”
The last part of his message attacks with urgency: “Take a stand. Don’t let the pressure shake your confidence or your beliefs. If you do not speak for your safety, or any other woman, who will do freedom? Freedom has not been given to women. We have to fight for it, and we are still.”
For Isha, awareness is the biggest weapon. “Create awareness. The more informed we are, the more difficult we are, we are silent.” His Navratri note is closed with a reminder that, “The goddess is not just to worship. She is to survive.”
Isha Koppikar on Ganesh Chaturthi: Environmentally friendly celebration with a forest-inspired subject
Apart from Navratri, Isha also welcomed Ganpati Bappa this year with a unique, environmentally friendly subject. Celebrating Ganesh Chaturthi for the fourth year, he said that the festival takes him to “very different transactions” and credited Bappa to guide Bappa through life challenges.
Sharing the details of his decoration, he revealed his love to the forests and nature and inspired this year’s theme. “I really like the forests and forests. This year, I thought of doing something different. My decorator and I collectively worked on it. I also chose Bappa’s color – a shadow that does not merge with the background because already has many colors,” he said.
For Isha, festivals like Navratri and Ganesh Chaturthi are not only about tradition, but about bringing deep meanings, reflections and positive changes, whether in society or at home.