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Nayantara Mallya is currently a communications specialist in Accenture, and mom to a teen and a tween. In her own words:
My previous career avatars had me freelancing as a content writer, teaching biotechnology in Bangalore colleges, being published in Chicken Soup for the Indian Soul, Tulika books, a Cengage compilation on Medical Ethics, and volunteering in Atlanta as a school library assistant, and an instructor in CPR with the American Red Cross. I’ve been an active part of a Bangalore adoptive parents support group. My springboard into the writing domain was my own personal experience of adoptive parenting. I have written on Women’s Web and my personal blog, on parenting, adoption, feminism. I’m keenly interested in diversity and inclusion in the Indian workforce. I’m also an ex-refugee twice over from Saddam Hussein and a returned immigrant thrice over (from Iraq, Kuwait and the US).
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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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