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The power of the collective woman is strong - if a million Indian women come together, what can we not do?
What do you think
Your threats, shaming, and endless discrimination can do
Break me?
I can speak, oh yes, and
My courage is infinitely greater than your underestimation.
Because I’m not alone, I’m strong,
I consist of the million women of this country,
I am a single breathing creature of these thousand voices.
Try drowning my dignity,
With all the raping, abuse, feticide, and the rest of that endless list and
I will fight back, equally strong,
In the moral way, I have substance-
I’ll rise higher every time you shove me down,
I am a being with every ounce of the capacity you think I lack.
I lack nothing and
I’m proud of what I am; don’t try making me ashamed because
You won’t succeed.
Shame on you! You’ve made people feel scared of
Our country with all
Your sexist crimes.
Lastly Darling, don’t forget that
I make this world whole every bit as you do;
I am your
Mother, sister, lover, stranger, and friend,
A person you can’t avoid knowing.
So here’s the treaty:
Let’s respect each other. Equally. In every respect.
Now, is that such a tough bargain?
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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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