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A war has broken out far away from me, yet as a mother, I worry. What if...?
I sit in my home. In comfort. With coffee. And a movie.
A war has broken out so far from me.
It’s so cold here, yet comfortable. The streets are safe. And silent. The skies are peaceful. There is no thunder. My flower garden is pretty. The grass mowed.
I look at the fridge and the kitchen. I see more than enough food for a month. My stomach is full. Our town is safe.
A war has broken out far from me.
But why do I see the name of my son in the list of causalities, When he is just a baby and sleeping peacefully next to me?
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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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