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Dealing with a kitchen disaster, Mandana art from Rajasthan, children's books that teach diversity - the Editor's 'Best of Women's Web' series
For the last couple of months, I have entirely skipped doing my pick of the best pieces on Women’s Web during the month, but – I’m back! This is something I love doing because as the volume of reads we offer goes up, I sometimes forget what we’ve published earlier on in the month, and this is my chance to revisit everything we’ve done!
So, here are some of my favourite pieces from all the writing we’ve published on Women’s Web in August 2012:
My absolute favourite was Sandhya Renukamba’s piece on children’s books that teach diversity. A fantastic list of 10 books that deal with fairness, tolerance and generosity, this piece made me wish I was a child again!
How does one deal with a kitchen disaster? The adventures of a baking-challenged mamma made for one hilarious account.
“My passion – and the reason I was born – is to make disability just another interesting aspect of a full and productive life.” This interview with Jo Chopra McGowan, Women’s Web reader and founder of the Latika Roy foundation for children with disability was humbling and enlightening.
A picture speaks a 1000 words. Proven here by this image of Sunita, exponent of the Mandana Art of Rajasthan.
Child sexual abuse does not just happen to girls; male child abuse is a rarely discussed issue in Indian society, and I thought this post was a good one for focusing specifically on it. Don’t all children deserve safety, irrespective of their gender?
Why should a woman’s marital status impact her job search or job prospects, asks Shweta GK. There is also an interesting discussion on there in the comments section.
We think we are modern, but what really is modernity? The wearing of certain kinds of clothing or being able to speak fluently in English? Activist writer Rita Banerji’s post on the status of widows in India tears apart the superficial veneer of modernity that Indian society prides itself on.
Happy Reading!
Founder & Chief Editor of Women's Web, Aparna believes in the power of ideas and conversations to create change. She has been writing since she was ten. In another life, she used to be 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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