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Women have been made to live a submissive life for centuries now. It's time to celebrate their capabilities, desires, identity, and freedom.
Women have been made to live a submissive life for centuries now. It’s time to celebrate their capabilities, desires, identity, and freedom.
The deep-rooted cultural tales
The societal norms subduing females
It’s time We celebrate her desires
We are afflicted with the age-old inequality
Controlling her body and veiling her ability
It’s time We celebrate her potential
There is no power to domesticate her mind
Incessantly it revokes and is no longer kind
It’s time We celebrate her empowerment
The mythology of different cultures,
Turns down a women’s desire as evil and vultures,
It’s time We celebrate her equality
Let the subjective truth of culture disperse
Ride on the power of the objective truth of the universe
It’s time we celebrate her real identity
Don’t quantify her chaste based on the patriarchal belief
Let her live her way without judging her fantasy or grief
It’s time We celebrate her freedom
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Neha Chawla is the Founder of NGOStory. A passionate writer and social educationist, she has been working for many NGOs and foundations conducting awareness programs for psychological well being and children empowerment. An Arts graduate 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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