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What happens when you decide to travel solo for the first time? It takes courage.. yes it does.
The photo flashed on my phoneIt is a journey that I’d take aloneFear was instilled in my every boneIt was an unknown zone
My mind is a house of conditionTo stray from that for a woman is the path to perditionThis is a moral renditionWhich is instilled by repetitionI confirmed my travel with trepidationIt wasn’t the journey nor the destinationIt was a moral self interrogationSelf – will in a woman is immoral in this generation
With a knot in my heart I packedCourage for solo travel I lacked
Now I smack my own backFor, from being immoral to becoming my own hero I’d made a comeback!
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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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