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Though heartbroken, a woman thanks her killer for breaking her heart, because it revealed her own heart to herself.
They’re calling you a ‘killer’.
Perhaps it’s true.
I’m one of the living dead you
left in your wake.
Though you pleaded
‘you didn’t want to hurt me’.
You stomped all over my moist,
green heart.
‘Til it was black
blue-barren.
I never realised hearts were so
delicate yet
heavy
to heal.
Perhaps they’re not meant to be
healed.
‘Killers’ congratulate themselves
on their victories
while the dying
lie abandoned in a
corner.
Yet in that dingy,
inhospitable crook….
I’d rather be the one
with the warm,
weeping heart
than the chilly,
unforgiving one.
So thank you ‘killer’
for revealing our hearts.
To love one first has to die.
I’m taking off the armour.
Isn’t it time you took off yours?
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Adele is a writer and activist on feminism, gender, culture, religion and human rights. She has spent the last few years commuting between London and India to study Buddhist Philosophy and the Tibetan language. Her 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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