Former ‘Big Boss’ contestant Sofia Hayat is known for two things – controversial opinions and glamorous photo-shoots.
The Kent-born Biritish-Asian diva once faced the brunt of social media trolling for her post on God.
“God is beyond shame. If the Divine Mother reveals Herself to you, will you ask Her why She does not have shame? Or maybe you should ask why you still have shame in your own mind? The Lord only reveals Herself to a person who has gone beyond shame and shamelessness, good and evil,” she wrote.
Sofia also wrote, “The iconography of Ma Kali shows her to be completely nude and not just topless. What you think of as her skirt is not really a skirt. Her full breasts nourish all sentient beings. She is shown nude because no finite clothes can cover the infinite. The concept that toplessness is crude or vulgar is a western custom.”
“It’s one of the byproducts of Victorian morality that was forced into our cultural system. Before the arrival of westerners, there was no concept of a separate cloth to cover the top half of the body. In Europe, due to the colder climate, they have to cover more than we have to,” she wrote.
“This requirement slowly trickled down into their tradition and toplessness became vulgar When they came to India, they found the one piece sari, which barely used to cover the breasts of women, to be very uncivilized. Hence, in their effort to ‘civilize’ us, they introduced the concept of top cloth and the morality associated with it. If you go to any old temples, you will hardly see the idols covering the top half of the body for this reason alone,” she continued.
“Most of the paintings and images of gods and goddesses you see today are derivatives of the work of Raja Ravi Varma, who first started producing oil paintings of mythological characters. So he chose to dress them as he found appropriate. There is no deeper meaning being conveyed. Toplessness is vulgar according to modern standards. In our original cultural, vulgarity was measured in terms of character and it’s purity, not how many clothes you can wear,” she concluded.
Sofia has been at the receiving end of heavy trolling from social media users for her controversial posts. But the diva knows how to keep her 312,000 fans on Instagram entertained with jaw-droppingly gorgeous photo-shoots.
Check out some of her best photos below:
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