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A cute poem which draws on the analogy of a bird to convey a mother's love for her child. A mother only has her child's interest at heart.
One should always keep the child in him/her alive. Here are six life lessons the author learnt watching tiny tots in action at a cultural event.
Inhibitions. We all come with them, in varying degrees. Some of us feel shy all our lives and thus give oxygen to inhibitions, while some of the others shrug them off early and keep the little child alive in their heart; even when their hair is graying and teeth are losing ground. Enthusiasm. Unmindful. Non-judgmental. How I wish I could imbibe these childlike abilities now in my adulthood.
Imagine this. On a sunny morning of August, I got to talk, interact with and watch an infectious group of small children participating at the annual event organised by a prestigious school in Gurgaon. The participating children were from different schools. As a part of the school’s emphasis on developing a sense of culture and history among these children, there were different events taking place across the school on that day. Event that I judged left me overwhelmed. Under the “East Meets West” event, tiny-tots were supposed to trace the roots of the Silk Route. This exercise transported the teachers, children and their parents to centuries ago; giving them a glimpse of the lives at that time. Each child had to choose a country which passed through the Silk Route, after which he or she had to present the cultures, traditions, businesses, lifestyles, music and much more about people who lived in that country during 1400 A.D.
This will not be an exaggeration that none of the eager beavers, aged between 4 to 6 years blinked an eye or fluttered their arms or stammered their tongue while standing poised at the center of the stage. Of all the fifteen performers I saw, each was well rehearsed. Their diction was excellent; the sequence of their task was in-time and their delivery top class.
What was commendable was how well these young ones walked up the stage; loaded with not just the confidence but even the knowledge of so many weeks. Each and every child stood with much elan in the center of the stage, sharing their uniqueness. Unmindful, these acts on the stage by the tiny-tots taught me many lessons of life, it was a learning experience for me:
Since then I have been trying to awaken the child within me. Being complacent hinders you from growing. I am trying hard to imbibe the spirits of my little role models. And I will reach there soon.
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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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