Question: Are you a M.A.R.D ?

I'm not entirely sure about weather people have heard about the campaign but I thought It might help raise awareness for the campaign.

Actor-director Farhan Akhtar's has become the latest celebrity to have launched a social awareness campign through his initiative MARD, which stands for Men Against Rape and Discrimination.

Actor-director Farhan Akhtar's has become the latest celebrity to have launched a social awareness campaign through his initiative MARD, which stands for Men Against Rape and Discrimination. As part of his intiative, the actor has aggressively started tweeting slogans on being a MARD from his Twitter handle @FarOutAkhtar. The word MARD means man in Hindi. @FarOutAkhtar: Change is inevitable. Be part of it. Spread the awareness of what it means to be a real #MARD.

Akhtar's initiative has been garnering massive response on the micro-blogging site Twitter with celebrities like Shabana Azmi, Priyanka Chopra, Arjun Rampal and Sonam Kapoor actively retweeting his posts that talk about the real meaning of men.


Akhtar's initiative has been garnering massive response on the micro-blogging site Twitter with celebrities like Shabana Azmi, Priyanka Chopra, Arjun Rampal and Sonam Kapoor actively retweeting his posts that talk about the real meaning of men.

Here are some of the tweets that have been trending on the micro-blogging site:

@iDev007: You are a real #MARD if you take a stand to protect women

@ritesh_sid: Am so proud of my friend @FarOutAkhtar for his initiative with #MARD. Am right besides you for anything you need to spread the Awareness.

@RjHarshil: Believe :If you are a man who respects women... her rights, her dignity, her independence, her mind, her body, her life... you are a #MARD."

@rohantandon1: @FarOutAkhtar Take the #MARD message to your schools, your colleges, your offices, your homes. Each of YOU must become catalysts for Change.


It's a very important initiative. It is really the mindset and the perception of what it means to be a real Mard that need to be change. I applaud Farhan for starting a much needed campaign.

Kudos to Akhtar. Extremely thoughtful of him. Hope it sends out a strong message to all men about what being a "man" really means.

@krystle_watz The things Farhan says make sense. Finally, there is someone sane in the Industry talking about such an important issue.

i loved the poem...

Now this is a good start!!

Beautiful lyrics, beautiful thoughts...It warmed my heart and kudos to Farhan Akhtar!

Thanks Farhan! For taking the intiative...for coming out with your thoughts on women...and for trying to make a difference! Respect and Salute to the real MARD!⭐️

It just reminded me of that article about PR exercise that a member eeyortel (or someone else) posted. Being Farhan.

Whatever reasons Farhan has for launching this campaign, It's highly important that a message like this is being put out there. The fact remains that he needs to be appreciated for actively doing something and reaching out to people.

Fortunate or unfortunate but Bollywood celebrities have A lot of influence in India. That's why you see images like this -





It would be a huge development if gender sensitivity becomes taught within schools, colleges and reaches out to all the Mards and society in general.

A very good step . Such movements r like Oxygen for a person these days as the situations regarding females r getting horrible & hectic day by day & crime( related to females ) is increasing with a big rate of acceleration