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The author through this poem wholeheartedly expresses her feelings about being a mother, living within a golden cage and much more.
Nah. I’m a blundering mom. Far from your images festooned with crisply folded sarees and crimson tainted hair partings. Imperfect, fat mom. With puny kids. But I make ends meet. End to end. Oh, I have a life; when the toddler is snoozing And the older kid goes schooling. In the wee bit of hours that squeeze in between, I cook, fold, clean, sip hot chai, read, fret and wean, and muse out loud. I’ve seen the Grandmom through this. I’ve seen Mom do her bit. As I run through the same golden cage I wish my offsprings break it. May the golden cage become history. May the exaltation stop. I’m stuck to a golden pedestal that hampers my climb atop (the Maslow’s) One day I’ll undo the fastenings and show my kids how to fly (and that I can fly) and that I create beginnings- apart from mock tests, food, havoc, stories, and sanctuary.
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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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