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When I turned twenty, I did not cut a birthday cake like Tiwari's daughter, but sat down to cut the tall grass overgrowing on his field!
When I turned twenty, I did not cut a birthday cake like Tiwari’s daughter, but sat down to cut the tall grass overgrowing on his field.
When I turned twenty
strangely I remembered my birth
the silent cries and the silent sighs,
hopes failed and expectations dwindled,
I was born into a deathless abyss.
When I turned twenty,
I astonishingly remembered the battles fought
the scars endured,
the labour undergone
to just live.
strangely I was reminded of the dead brother who shot himself,
and his speeches which brought us to no good.
For I remain a farmhand and he an ignored voice-deprived soul.
When I turned twenty ,
I sat not to count my gifts,
but to count the burning blisters on my dark Dalit hands;
and the countless black rings around a despised toe.
I did not cut a birthday cake like Tiwari’s daughter
but sat down to cut the tall grass overgrowing on his field.
I did not remember happy memories of a shielded childhood,
but strove to forget a neglectful existence.
To say the truth,
when I turned twenty
I had no time to think,
for there was lessons to be done,
grass to be cut,
the rice to be boiled
and a world to be fought.
Isha is a 18 year old student of English Honors in Christ University. An aspiring poetess, a blundering writer and a hopelessly old school romantic, Isha, decidedly in love with English, Maddhava and all things 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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