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A timely knock on the door can save a life, save a woman or girl from violence. Let them know someone is watching.
Closed doors muffled moans, Don’t ignore if you land on.. May be it’s next door Down the street, or your own A child with tears, a girl with bruises Woman hiding her pain inside a draped veil Don’t be a bystander, just knock the door Let her know, someone is watching She’s not alone, anymore Not every tears are to be drunk, no bones needed to be broken!
Closed doors muffled moans Don’t ignore if you land on.. Break the fear that kept you shackled all these years It’s now or never, better to hear What if the cries are from far across? Are you waiting for the moans to hit your door? Go ahead and knock the door, don’t shy It’s a sorry, if nothing, Otherwise you saved a life It can be a child, girl or a woman who fought hard to survive!! Just go on and knock the door…
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Sheeba Vinay is a writer, Compiler by profession. She is criminologist and a writing therapist. Her write-ups have been published in Lokmat Times, TOI and various platforms like Women's Web, Momspresso, Storymirror, India 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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