Indian students make a kickass poster on how to be 'a bad girl' (clue: wear your hair down)

Do you have breasts? Pout? Eat too much?

If so, you’re a ‘bad girl’ - at least, as far as India is concerned.

A group of students have created a satirical poster showing just how difficult it is for women to be themselves in India, without being criticised.

The poster is called ‘A Bad Girl’ and mimics a famous 1980s Indian poster called ‘An Ideal Boy – Good Habits’, which depicted a boy praying, saluting his parents and bathing daily.

It shows women watching pornography, not being able to make round rotis (chapattis), wearing their hair loose, smoking and drinking.

The poster was created by a group of students at the Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology in Bangalore.

_{The poster in full. Photo: Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology}

Alison Byres, the teacher who assigned the project, told the Wall Street Journal: “It seems like there’s nothing you can do to be the perfect girl because being a girl itself appears to be the problem.”

The back of the poster shows a list of “bad girl possessions” such as beer, a pushup bra, cigarettes, heels, a pregnancy test and condoms.

It even includes a phone, short skirts and lipstick.

The poster was uploaded on to social media by student Furqan Jawed, at the beginning of the year, and has since gone viral.

_{The back of the poster. Photo: Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology}

It comes as India finds itself in the spotlight over issues regarding women’s safety and sexual abuse.

Recently, a BBC documentary India’s Daughter - about the 2012 gang rape of a student in New Delhi - was banned in India but has been shown across the world.

This week, a video of two Indian women rapping in Hindi and English about rape went viral.

Pankhuri Awasthi and Uppekha Jain created the #RapAgainstRape to highlight sexual violence and hypocrisy in their own country.

They tackle issues such as rape, clothing, infanticide, marriage and women walking alone at night.

Statistics pop up on the screen to emphasise their points. One reads: ‘India kills 10 million girls in 20 years’.

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