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I draw inspiration from every woman I know because each one of them is a treasure and there is so much to learn from them.
Got up to another beautiful day, feeling grateful and happy. This day is special because the whole world (most part of it) is celebrating women.
I opened the newspaper to go through the news before I get to my work. The newspaper was full of advertisements. Special Women’s Day discounts on beauty products, lingerie, salon services and home decor. While this is all good, I wish there were discounts on cars, bikes, in bookstores, on sports equipment, on horse riding classes and so on.
It’s not about wanting to be equal physically, no, I don’t want that. It is about equal opportunity. It is about letting a woman do what they want.
My phone is buzzing since morning with messages of Happy Women’s Day on WhatsApp. I went through each one of them but I did not find anything inspiring because celebrating a woman is not about telling her that she is a daughter, a mother, a wife, she is kind and caring. Women’s Day is not about making the women feel stronger, because she is already strong. We should change the way the world perceives that strength.
Though the messages did not inspire me, there are a few women in my life who have really inspired me and made me proud.
I want to dedicate this writeup to them.
Apart from these very lovely women, I draw inspiration from every woman I know because each one of them is a treasure and there is so much to learn from them.
From now onwards, on Women’s Day, let’s inspire each other to be better, recognize the difference and celebrate the difference. That I feel is the essence of a woman.
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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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