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The poet has described what a girl child inside the womb of her mother must feel like knowing that she would not be getting a chance to live.
I feel drowsy after having my fill of food,
floating around in the womb of water,
dreaming about how I can play around with my friends,
all the girly talks, dressing up for occasions,
stealing glances at that handsome guy,
and the big plans to be a successful career woman,
but all this just seems like a mirage,
my very existence becoming a question,
why do you want to do this, don’t you love me?
I’m your blood, a symbol of your love,
why do you want to crush me even before I enter the world?
I have so many dreams, don’t I have a right to live my dreams?
All this just because I’m a female,
but I am life, I create life, why nip me in the bud?
Kavitha is based in Hyderabad, India, a Civil Engineer with a Masters in Environmental Science by profession. Love for writing made her take up writing for the past fifteen years. She has published her first 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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