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Do parents cease to be humans, once they have children? Do their desires, aspirations and expectations as individuals disappear?
Why do Indian children particularly boys have problems accepting their mothers as a ‘woman’?
I recently watched ‘Once Again’ on Netflix. A movie about a mature romance.
It’s a story of two souls who try to fill their voids by conversing through lonely nights.
Shefali Shah with her expressive eyes and Neeraj Kabi with a romantic restraint bring forth the sensuality of two individuals trying to overcome years of loneliness.
They are looking for a connection, a bond which a death and a divorce have deprived them of. They could have spent the coming years conversing in body and thought.
Is that wrong or right?
The millennials in India for all their aping of the western lifestyles, gizmos and food trends, refuse to accept parents as individuals. Men and women who could, would, and should have physical and emotional desires.
Humans as a species express themselves sexually, besides physically and verbally.
The female lead Tara’s son reacts with an insensitivity that is cruel to the core; to make a responsible adult feel guilty for their desire to be having a matured, adult relationship!
What society, children and families forget is that at a later age, the need and desire for company is much more. They have time and a lifetime to share.
The movie ends with a clandestine meeting on vacations between two as Tara’s married son refuses to acknowledge the ‘woman’ in his mother.
The movie sends the message that the lead couple found a way to meet their emotional and physical desires, but did not challenge their children who don’t want to follow conventions themselves, but enforce it on the parents.
A disappointing end, losing out on a really good and inspiring story.
Image source: a still from the movie Once Again
A licensed psychotherapist/counselor, writer and an avid gardener. Swati believes that for the inner person to be happy, they have to be in tandem with nature and the surroundings along with their feelings and 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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