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Every Indian woman has been through something like this. Written in light of the criticism faced by Samantha Ruth Prabhu for divorce and the moral trial of women who don't want to fit a definition.
Every Indian woman has been through something like this. Written in light of the criticism faced by Samantha Ruth Prabhu for divorce and the moral trial of women who don’t want to fit a definition.
Like a martyr misunderstood Like a visionary seeing far ahead She was living in times too soon
She didn’t want to apologize For not knowing what sabzi to buy She didn’t want to answer when everyone asked her to quit
She wanted to be free to love And she wanted to move on When unrequited
She didn’t want to bring up children Imperfect, lacking in ambition Idolizing mothers who cook and fathers who don’t
She wouldn’t be mediocre Just to make him feel good Or be the ‘good’ he defined
Why did she try so hard then, to make the roti’s round? Why didn’t she leave sooner Before they got to her?
Because even if she did It wouldn’t have mattered The times were too soon you see,
Too soon, it might always be.
Image source: Samantha Ruth Prabhu’s Instagram
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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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