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Poem: Being Lazy — On weekdays, I wake up to questioning eyes, melancholic eyes and eyes full of despair, with the desire to do nothing but sleep and wander in dreams.
On weekdays, I wake up
to questioning eyes, melancholic eyes and eyes full of despair,
with the desire to do nothing but sleep and wander in dreams,
Father bears an angry expression,
Mother, a defensive look.
The others just too derisive,
And me all consuming to do nothing.
A yawn here, a yawn there,
lazy ache in the body,
with little numbness in the head.
No one speaks to me,
anger so intense in their hearts.
But I swim in my bliss.
Ah! It’s so beautiful with a cup of tea in my hand,
while I half open my eyes and feel the earthy smell that pervades the house…
I shut my self when I see the time, the date and years going by…
I close my reasoning,
take a deep breath and lay myself down
on a sun-soaked couch…
The bliss in my heart and mind, so serene and unseen.
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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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