Popular actress Sudha Chandran took to her social media and has made an appeal to the Prime Minister of India - Narendra Modi to issue a specific card for senior citizens like her in order to avoid the “grilling” situation at the airports.
Apart from an actress, she is also a renowned Bharatanatyam dancer. For the unversed, Sudha had lost her leg in an accident in 1981 but returned to dancing and acting again using a prosthetic foot.
In her latest Instagram video, she narrates the ordeal, “Good evening, this is a very personal note that I want to tell to our dear Prime Minister Narendra Modi Ji, this is an appeal to the central government, I am Sudha Chandran, an actress and dancer by profession, who has danced with an artificial limb and created history and made my country feel very proud of me.”
She continues, “But every time that I go on my professional visits, each time, am stopped at the airport and when I request them at the security, to the CISF officers that please do an ETD (Explosive Trace Detector) for my artificial limb, they still want me to remove my artificial limb and show it to them. Is this humanly possible, Modi ji? Is this what our country is talking about? Is this the respect that a woman gives to another woman in our society? It is my humble request to you Modi ji that please give senior citizens a card that says they are senior citizens."