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This goes out to all the women out there to hold on to your dreams and to nurture them, reaching for dreams whenever it is possible!
Oh to see you be like the birds! To sing, to take off, to soar To know what it is to be alive And free at its very core
To bring young ones into the world To feed them and watch them grow Help them take wings each day Only to one day, let them go
And while tending to them Keep your own wings strong Knowing your own time to fly Isn’t ever truly gone
So why weren’t you more like the birds That you carved your own limits Got so caught up in your duties That you forgot to feed your spirit
So keep your songs intact and your wings strong Don’t ever let them go lame The ground is as much yours As the sky is yours to claim
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I am Dipali Ekbote. I have been a corporate professional with an exciting 20 years in the financial technology industry. I am a mother of two teenagers - a girl and a boy. I trek, write, read more...
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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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