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A poem about love and loss. Nobody is permanent, one day or the other everyone must die writes the author about her lost childhood.
Today I revisited my childhood
There I met not one but two grandmothers,
They were talking to each other
It seemed to me their talks will go on forever
And so will my childhood
When I grew up a little
A day arrived when one of those sparrows flew away
It took me a long while to come out of that
When I saw the other one,
she was still chirping
I mistook her chirping for an everlasting one
She appeared to me like an iron woman
She’ll never rust, will never lose her lustre,
thought to myself, foolish I,
She was taken at a distance
A wall was erected that hampered access to her soothing chirp
I dare not peep across the wall
As if nothing could make it fall
She was losing her lustre
Her iron body was rusting, overheard I
What illusion dissuaded me from reaching her
I’ll regret all life
coz the second sparrow flew away too
Never to come back
But she led me back to my childhood
I can still see them both
sitting together and chirping
O, how I long to relive those days!
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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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