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What steps have we taken for the protection of girls and women? Each one of us is a culprit and answerable to Nirbhaya and many others.
The clock struck at 2.30 am. She tried to open her eyes. “Ahhh… Mom…” She wanted to call out.
But she felt as if she had lost control over her body; she felt as if her throat was about to fall apart.
“Doctor…. doctor… HELP! HELP!” She heard her mother crying out.
“Oh, Mom… you are here? What’s the matter?” – She wanted to open her lips to say these words, but couldn’t. So she decided to listen as that was all she could do at the moment.
“I am sorry, I couldn’t rescue her.” She heard her doctor’s feeble voice. Suddenly a loud wail reverberated within the ICU walls.
Now she could see her family. She felt tranquil and unusually peaceful. Her aching body had disappeared, instead she felt as if she was floating in the air… She enjoyed that state of tranquility, but the chaos in the room distracted her. Wait!! Who’s that girl, near my parents? It’s a dead body, around which her whole family was crying out. That is…. Am I dead???
She came out of the hospital. The place was crowded. Reporters, protesters…
“Oh, it’s my ma’am. She is also here?”
“What kind of girl was Nirbhaya?” – One reporter asked her teacher who was trying to control her tears.
“Nirbhaya was so intelligent with full of dreams and energy.” Her words broke as a chilly gust of wind rushed by. The teacher wanted to tell a whole story about her, but she could only gaze at the journalist as if she had frozen in anguish.
Nirbhaya- A girl, who lived carefree, basking in all emotions that spur up in her…enjoyed each weed, plant, or flower on the sides of the muddy pavement as she walked to school, talked to trees and they swayed back to her. She was dreamy, the smell of mud during rain made her ecstatic as she sat in her Veranda cherishing the dark sky.
Like the change of seasons, the color of her cheeks too changed. She knew no flaws and had a golden heart. She read about the great philosophers in awe.
And today, she has become the breaking news for the media.
Suddenly, she started sweeping away in the wind. She dissolved in the wind. Her presence empowered each molecule in it.
The same wind might have entered into the lungs and the body of each living being in this world.
Didn’t you feel her presence?
What have we done for her?
What steps have we taken for the protection of girls and women?
Hasn’t this become common news, now-days? About babies, girls, and even woman officials are being torn down for the lust of flesh? Who can escape from these monsters?
But it is not far that this turbulent wind enters our lungs and nostrils, choking us to death. Each one of us is a culprit and answerable to Nirbhaya and many others.
Can’t you hear her, whimpering in the wind:–“WAKE UP…..DO SOMETHING……PLEASE ACT NOW.”
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Deepa.R. Krishnan✍ A Public Relations Consultant in Dubai. Digital content creator. Cherie Blair foundation mentor alumna. Mohiniyattam dancer. Favorite quote: "The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough." 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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