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A poetic tribute to the brave story of every acid attack survivor.
Her life will neither stop nor cease
By this act of brutal cowardice
As you sneak up in all your monstrous ugliness
Feeling powerful in your hideous existence
As you attack her from behind
Living out a heinous fantasy of your convoluted mind
A splash on her face, with the aim
To kill, to disfigure, to scar, to maim
Her skin you might scorch
But her spirit is an eternal torch
The flames of which you can never reach
An impregnable wall, you can never breach
From the searing pain, the agonizing cries
With renewed strength she will rise
Image is a still from the movie Chhapak
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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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