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Maa, you say that it is our destiny to serve, sacrifice, as a wife, a daughter in law, a caretaker, a servant, a slave - you must know that all - but please, a little more time?
Maa, you say that it is our destiny to serve, sacrifice, as a wife, a daughter in law, a caretaker, a servant, a slave – you must know that all – but please, a little more time?
Maa,
Just give me some more time, I’ll do as you say, Because you know better, Isn’t it maa?
Just a little more time, I ask for. Time to color my sky, With all the pretty colors. Time to lay in a field Of my dreams. All alone, complete. But you say I need a partner, To be complete. Because you know better, You’ve felt it, Haven’t you maa?
Just a little more time, I ask for. Let me use all the colors, Colors I can’t blend. For it makes me happy, To not make sense. You say you know better, Making sense is important, It makes us significant. You feel important , Don’t you maa?
Just a little more time, I ask for. Time for myself, Just to lay still. Do nothing, care for no one. Be happy, all by myself. But you say you know better, Happiness lies in caring. Caring day and night, You do that maa. You’re happy this way, Aren’t you maa?
Hush Hush maa, Just a few days more. I beg for it. Beg of the moments in which, I’m not a wife, A mother, A daughter in law, A daughter, A pride, A liability, An obligation, A servant, A slave, An object of lust, A project, For this world to make. Just so that, I’m criticized, Till I’m no more awake.
A few more moments, Of just being alive, A living breathing, Beautiful person. A few more days, Of just being a girl. But you say you know better. Us girls, we just can’t be. We are not ours to keep. But you say you know better, Serving is our purpose, Sacrificing is our battlecry, Living with ridicule is our glory. You’ve lived through it, You’re proud of yourself now, Aren’t you ma?
~From the girl, Who will never bite the dust.
Image source: a still from the film Bulbbul
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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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