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The myriad of emotions that a bride goes through when she enters a new phase in her life.
She walks around the ceremonial fire In all her finery, in her wedding attire. Eyes downcast, hooded, shy and coy Shining with and yet hiding her desire.
Demurely yet assuredly, behind the boy She walks, her sadness tinged with joy. Bedecked in gold jewels, attired in yellow Do unbidden emotions in her heart cloy?
Holding the hand of her chosen fellow She walks till the fire is muted, is mellow. Under golden lights of a flowered dome To the music of the shehnai, like a cello
Out of the mandap and into her new home The new bride walks, her steps don’t roam. She pays obeisance to the Gods, she bows And settles in for life, like the sun at gloam.
First published here.
Image is a still from the movie Hum Tum
Sonal is a multiple award winning blogger and writer and the founder of a women-centric manpower search firm - www.rianplacements.com. Her first book, a volume of poetry - Islands in the stream - is slated 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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