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A fictional interview with an yesteryear actress and cancer survivor.
“Good evening, ladies and gentleman. Welcome back to your favorite television show “Chai Pe Charcha” where you listen to your favorite celebrities sharing their life stories and wisdom with you over a cup of tea. I am Varsha and tonight I have a special guest. She is a model, an actor and now she has a new epithet before her name – a cancer survivor. So ladies and gentleman, please welcome the beautiful, glamorous, courageous Madhubala Dutta.”
(Smiling) “Hi everybody.” (Facing the camera)
“Thank you Varsha.”
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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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