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The Delhi smog has left the residents literally gasping for breath. Is it worth a day's merriment? Maybe it is time to #ReInventFestivals?
The Delhi smog has left the residents literally gasping for breath. Is it worth a day’s merriment? Maybe it is time to #ReInventFestivals?
Festival times are – indulging in merriment, carring forward traditions and spending time with family. But as we come across disturbing images of rivers of blood in Dhaka to the dense smog in Delhi, I can’t help but think – one day of merriment, several days of miseries! Is it worth it?
We say education helps us to see the flip side, does it really?
In the run up to Diwali, pollution was on the top of the mind for everyone. Posts were written, statuses were updated, tweets galore and a war cry – NO CRACKERS, GREEN DIWALI, SAVE THE ENVIRONMENT. The future looked promising given the amount of buzz around. And boy, did it happen? Well looking at the density and intensity of the Delhi smog, looks like they were mere words after all!
Yes, I agree the burning of crops and the direction of the wind has made it worse, but that doesn’t rationalise our actions. For a change, instead of finding excuses and hiding behind pretextes let’s just take responsibility for our own actions and stop passing the buck. The buck indeed needs to stop with each one of us.
So we asked our readers would they consider an alternative way of spending Diwali. This is what they said.
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The reinvention comes from less focus on crackers, more on just spending time 🙂 #WomenOnTheMove https://t.co/vjumhgA9EH — Aparna V Singh (@editorsahiba) October 26, 2016
The reinvention comes from less focus on crackers, more on just spending time 🙂 #WomenOnTheMove https://t.co/vjumhgA9EH
— Aparna V Singh (@editorsahiba) October 26, 2016
For me ‘traditional’ part of Diwali is that it’s about family. Like to spend with parents or ILs #WomenOnTheMovehttps://t.co/vjumhgA9EH — Aparna V Singh (@editorsahiba) October 26, 2016
For me ‘traditional’ part of Diwali is that it’s about family. Like to spend with parents or ILs #WomenOnTheMovehttps://t.co/vjumhgA9EH
@womensweb A1. Celebrating Diwali in a traditional way has itself become different these days. I love to follow rituals. #WomenOnTheMove — Pallavi Kamat (@Pallavisms) October 26, 2016
@womensweb A1. Celebrating Diwali in a traditional way has itself become different these days. I love to follow rituals. #WomenOnTheMove
— Pallavi Kamat (@Pallavisms) October 26, 2016
@womensweb a festival to meet with family and friends — TravelingNoodles (@anjujayaram) October 26, 2016
@womensweb a festival to meet with family and friends
— TravelingNoodles (@anjujayaram) October 26, 2016
@womensweb With the strong influence of western culture, it’s important to emphasise #festivals as family occasions.#Diwali #womenonthemove — Vaishali Gandhi (@vaishali178) October 26, 2016
@womensweb With the strong influence of western culture, it’s important to emphasise #festivals as family occasions.#Diwali #womenonthemove
— Vaishali Gandhi (@vaishali178) October 26, 2016
@womensweb#ReInventingDiwali making cracking sound with just a paper!. My daughter’s way of celebrating pollution less Diwali — jey (@jeydevi) October 26, 2016
@womensweb#ReInventingDiwali making cracking sound with just a paper!. My daughter’s way of celebrating pollution less Diwali
— jey (@jeydevi) October 26, 2016
@womensweb This time I decided not 2 buy expensive lights from outside, but make my own. Fairy lights in decorated Keventers bottles 😍 — Swarnima (@SwarnsB) October 26, 2016
@womensweb This time I decided not 2 buy expensive lights from outside, but make my own. Fairy lights in decorated Keventers bottles 😍
— Swarnima (@SwarnsB) October 26, 2016
@womensweb Diwali without #crackers only with #lights #love and #mithai #womenonthemove — Back to the Front (@back2dfront) October 26, 2016
@womensweb Diwali without #crackers only with #lights #love and #mithai #womenonthemove
— Back to the Front (@back2dfront) October 26, 2016
@womensweb making traditional sweets with healthy twist at home #WomenOnTheMove — shruti mahajan singh (@shrutimsingh) October 26, 2016
@womensweb making traditional sweets with healthy twist at home #WomenOnTheMove
— shruti mahajan singh (@shrutimsingh) October 26, 2016
With the debacle of a pollution causing Diwali behind us, and the festive season still not over with Christmas and the New Year coming, maybe we should introspect on what we should be doing.
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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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