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A strong, heartfelt poem about women forging ahead and making their own path!
She desired to set her feet in the world,
Add many feathers to her cap, as a flying bird,
‘Act like a lady’ she always heard,
That initially sounded to her weird.
She bore the wrath of her unheard voices,
‘cause deep down she made some wrong choices,
Which made her believe, she had many vices,
Thus, dragging the sorrows in all sizes!
Nevertheless, she worked like a horse,
Without feeling for her, a single remorse,
Thereby, making her body and soul worse,
But alas! She was her own nurse!
With time, she was taken for granted,
And the world forgot what she \”really\” wanted,
But those dreams to her, were still haunted,
And suddenly came to her, her confidence, undented.
All these times, she acted like a woman,
And forgot that she too was a human,
Now that she gained this acumen,
There is no going back, amen!
Now that she retrieved her power,
She has decided not to cower,
She vowed to bloom into a unique flower,
‘cause it’s now or never!
She will falter, she will rise,
Not heeding to what the society shall advise,
That’s how she would find her blessings in disguise,
And walk confidently on her path, to be wise!
Image source: Still from English Vinglish
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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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