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An evocative poem about finding the light within! Read on.
Chasing her dream, She stumbled on. Trying to peek in the future She skipped on. Happy to be there, She breathed life, Meeting ghosts As she moved on. Some that stopped her, Some that made her forget the path, Some who enchanted her with their smiles, While some tried to sway her with their promises. She waited at each step, She tried to find the truth in all the ghosts, With every dismay, With every heartache, With every scar, She swore to keep moving. She skipped even then, For her spirit knew, She would reach Where she wanted to! So what its beyond the clouds, So what its hidden from sight, She knew in her heart, Her soul knew she would. She wanted to hold the star she saw, She wanted to hold the light she awed, Little did she realize- She was the star she saw twinkling, The universe smiled as it saw her skipping on, For it saw a star happily strutting by, Trying desperately to find, The source of light, Oblivious to the truth- That it came from her own twinkle!
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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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