India, April 23 -- Self-aware, sharp and gently irreverent, she moves between insight and humour without missing a beat. This World Book Day, author-filmmaker Twinkle Khanna, known for writing Mrs Funnybones (2015), The Legend of Lakshmi Prasad (2016), Pyjamas Are Forgiving (2018), and Welcome to Paradise (2023), offers a glimpse into the perceptive lens through which she sees the world. I have a feeling that it will offend quite a few people, but my job is not to go around offending people. My job is to make people reflect on the things that are visible. But our own conditioning blinds us to those factors. It might make people uncomfortable and they might call it offensive... (But) I think about how I will unravel the layers of conditioning, not just around them but also around me because I also find my way through life as I write. Once in an interview in the United Kingdom, I said sanitary pads were taxed and Viagra was tax-free because policies were made by 65-year-old men. I was really talking about UK because in India, Viagra was also taxed. When I came back to India, a few politicians did not come for the premiere of Pad Man (2018 film produced by Khanna) because they felt it was targeting them because, unfortunately, they were also 65....