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Have you ever felt an instant connection with an unknown person on the road? That eye contact and that exchange of smiles...have you ever wonderd why?
I see her in the shadows
Withdrawn and weary
Wrinkled hands, tale of a sorry story
Eyes vacant maybe dreams lost too a many
Her feet in tattered slippers drag her drooping body. ..
Yet her face spoke to me
Across the road,across the crowd
She looked at me like she knew
Behind the facade of my red lipstick
And my rosy cheeks
She knew the familiar story
Of endless nights and dreary days
Of people I call my own
But now strangers known
Of those little lies we tell
Of those blatant truths we hide
Of egos and false pride
Of hearts we hurt
And souls we tear. ..
She smiled a knowing smile
And I knew she had been there
Living my life living a lie….
former teacher and presently a home maker by choice. avid reader, occasional baker with a melodramatic penchant for sunsets and the beach! 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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