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There's an accident and one of a couple is dead. How will they bear the loss of what once was?
There’s an accident and one of a couple is dead. How will they bear the loss of what once was?
The car’s tangled remains
And my mangled heart
Are both torn!
Both are bereft of anchors.
My heart keens much like the metal’s clang,
It bewails your loss.
Oh, the pain! Ah, the agony!
I spy you – bruised, Nay, battered
In the wreckage
Even as I stand clear of it – distant.
I want to cry but I find that I cannot.
I am mute.
Am I in shock?
The sirens drown out the ambient sounds.
The responders cut off my impotent sobs.
They are there!
Finally! You have help.
I try to gulp a ragged breath
But I do not need it, do I?
You are safe, my love…you are safe
You breathe my love…still
Even as I find that I do not.
Image source: a still from the film Talaash
Sonal is a multiple award winning blogger and writer and the founder of a women-centric manpower search firm - www.rianplacements.com. Her first book, a volume of poetry - Islands in the stream - is slated 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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