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A homemaker wishes to snooze some more, but the relentless of her morning routine pushes her to get up and begin yet another day, even if she has a few minutes of her coffee time for herself.
The alarm tolls Wake up sleepy head, it’s morn.
She opens her eyes, but doesn’t wake up. A glorious sun peeps in through the defiant curtains. A few more moments, she wishes to be on the snooze but the engines are already abuzz. Ting tong, whooshh, boom honk honk, beep beep sizzle, tuk tuk, tring tringg… the engines vroom all around her.
The body gets started too but the spark is missing. The soul is restless. She seeks solitude, for a moment of gratitude for another enchanting morning, to savor the stillness around, to wonder at the dew drops perching on the tendrils, to soak in the bird song, before it’s drowned in the cacophony outside.
But the morning rush beckons. Mist from the coffee cup clouds her eyes. She blinks. It gets cold. And insipid.
Just like her life.
She plants a twig. The coffee cup on the window sil sun kissed, brimmeth over now with green, purple, pink brown and mauve- joyous, vibrant colors.
A version of this was first published here.
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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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