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Today, more than ever, needs writers who let their ideas run free, to inspire the world. Here is an ode to the writer's dilemma - to be or not to be free?
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Today, more than ever, needs writers who let their ideas run free, to inspire the world. Here is an ode to the writer’s dilemma – to be or not to be free?
One of the top 5 entries for September’s Muse of the Month writing theme, with the cue “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me” taken from Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre.
A writer is a sensitive thing
Seeing things
Thinking up strange scenarios.
Envisions a story
Others don’t see
Inhabiting a world
Whose reality is remembered scents,
Bursts of forgotten music
Wisps of mist.
The sight
Of the light
As it shines through a leaf
Berry squelch burst of taste.
Emotions felt,
Emotions watched and heard
Situations
What goes through your head
Before you are beheaded?
Who cleans the sword…does anyone?
Soft ephemeral thoughts
May dance onto a page, pinned there by a pen
Or may forever float
Like motes of dust in a sunbeam
Illuminated momentarily.
A writer’s mind
Densely populated
Has no space
For criticism
Other people’s opinions
Poison arrows
For my dragonfly wing delicate ideas.
To protect
My writing
I can either write…and show no one
Or write, as Charlotte Bronte did
Under a pseudonym.
Was her writing so courageous, open and uncensored
Because she veiled who she was?
Is this the way?
In a world where children berate writing mothers
For publicizing emotions and events,
Mothers enjoin adult daughters
Not to touch upon certain topics
Demanding
The strongest experiences
Crying to be voiced
Be censored.
Does a writer have the energy to confront
Mother, partner, offspring?
Should she ?
Or should the burkha of anonymity
Float down upon her writing
Allowing it to be
Fearless and free?
Anonymous out of a dislike
Of being criticized ?
It’s like a mother giving up her baby
For adoption.
But if you must, you must
It’s better than killing the baby.
Or not writing at all.
Let my writing be free.
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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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