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#Poetry. The poet speaks about her stutter, for which she is shamed. But unlike many others, "I dare to speak", she says.
#Poetry. The poet speaks about her stutter, for which she is shamed. But unlike many others, “I dare to speak”, she says.
Those words that you casually throw to the winds, Words pronounced with the fluidity of a flying bird at ease; Those words – oh those words- to me, are like diamonds; They need to be polished, worked on, practiced, repeated – Until they tumble out of my mouth with seemingly effortless ease – To bring my racing thoughts to an understandable pace, To slow down, to bring my point across. My sentences don’t end with an elegant parameter, They have no rhyme nor order much like this poem; Because I stutter.
I get stuck on words; Syllables get repeated at an alarming rate, Bespectacled and stuttering – they made me the symbol of a prototype nerd, My “supposed embarrassment” on display to the world. Yes. I stutter.
I jump hurdles over difficult words, I navigate my way through potential blocks, I switch languages, I shuffle words; My brain constantly plays juggle with a million synonyms for words. Yes, I stutter.
I stutter because I dare to speak. I stutter because I have a voice of my own. Yes, I stutter and this is what my voice sounds like.
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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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