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I am an individual - with highs, lows, and a thousand paradoxes- not just a daughter, mother, sister or wife. So what if I am a woman? Let me be me, says this poem.
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I am an individual – with highs, lows, and a thousand paradoxes – not just a daughter, mother, sister or wife. So what if I am a woman? Let me be me, says this poem.
Let me spread my wings and fly,
High, high up in the blue sky.
Let me laugh till tears roll down,
Let me cry till my eyes go dry.
Let me dive deep in the sea,
Sometimes I want to be with me.
Let me inhale some fresh, crisp air,
Dance, sing, and live my share.
Let me splash some water from puddles,
For this age is not a hurdle.
Let me explore the woods and valleys,
To test my boldness and my bravery.
Let me toss and turn like the surf on a wave,
Please don’t judge me, as I can be naive.
Let me chase the powerful wind,
I just want to leave my fear behind.
Let me paint myself with a rainbow,
Violet, Indigo, Blue, Red, Green, Orange and Yellow.
Please try to remember that
‘Pink’ is not my only colour.
I may go wrong or right,
Nobody in this world is perfect.
Don’t tag me weak and pale,
I have every right to rise and fail.
I loathe being judged,
I want to be unscathed.
Let me live my only life,
I know I am a daughter, mother, sister and a wife!
Only thing I want, is sometimes
Let me be me.
Pic credit: Paingouin (Used under a CC license)
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UP Boards Topper Prachi Nigam was trolled on social media for her facial hair; our obsession with appearance is harsh on young minds.
Prachi Nigam’s photo has been doing the rounds on social media for the right reasons. Well, scratch that- I wish the above statement were true. This 15-year-old girl should ideally be revelling in her spectacular achievement of scoring a whopping 98.05% and topping her tenth-grade boards. But oddly enough, along with her marks, it’s something else that garners more attention – her facial hair.
While the trolls are driving themselves giddy by mocking this girl who hasn’t even completed her school yet, the ones who are taking her side are going one step ahead – they are sharing her photoshopped pictures, sans the facial hair, looking nothing less than a celebrity with captions saying – “Prachi Nigam, ten years later”.
Doctors have already diagnosed her with PCOD in their comments, based on photographic evidence. While we have names for people shamed for their weight – body shaming, for their skin colour- racism, for their age- age shaming, for being a female- sexism, this category of shaming where one faces criticism for their appearance has no name. With that, it also has zero shame attached to it.
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