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Everyone puts a story on the facebook profile. How far is it true? Two women lament across the screens. But reality has another story.
Everyone creates a story on their Facebook profile. How far is it true? Two women lament across the screens. But reality has another story.
On one side of the computer screen, She yearns to be the girl, She gazes on her Facebook friend’s list, whom she randomly added.
The girl on the photos had a story, which only the other could read. She read that the girl was thin, successful and single, In each photo, she was surrounded by young men and women.
In the kitchen while boiling the milk for her little son, She wondered, “How great is it to be her, the other girl.” Thinking so, she lifted her gaze with molten eyes.
On the other side of the computer screen, the thin girl had a different story to read. She read the other girl had a clean house, an everyday job, a husband, a child and a dog. She looked at her own anorexic body and let a cry.
As she replied to her fan mails, like every day with a reason or hope, Her eyes could not lift its gaze from the other girl’s profile. She mourned, “How great is it to be the other girl, to live amidst so much security.”
This is what both women did each day, Killed the life bit by bit that was rightfully theirs, And longed and gasped for a life that never existed.
Time just smiled and passed by.
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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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