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Who gave you the authority, Sir, you’re neither the prince nor pauper. What has happened to the world, Dear Lord, and why is it in pieces? Where did we go wrong at all, why does intelligence ceases?
It was a quiet morning and everything was a bliss,
The pre Vedic era was a pure and serene premise…
Where things were equal and people were generous,
And very few things can be called venerous…
Cut to 2022, oh what we see,
A woman killed in a wild, unfair spree…
The reason was her headscarf wasn’t proper,
Who gave you the authority Sir, you’re neither the prince nor pauper…
What has happened to the world, Dear Lord, and why is it in pieces,
Where did we go wrong at all, why does intelligence ceases…
This is but one incidence which rocked the world, and yet we learn nothing at all,
Was the headscarf such a big deal, or is it the killers who should take that fall?
Let us come a bit closer to home, when my friend was at the road,
She was teased by a few men, and later her chances to step out blowed…
When we discussed, some of my friends said, “She should’ve donned her “sindoor”,
Does depravity stop at the sindoor I ask, or doesn’t marital rape happen indoors?
Nirbhaya and Asifa must look down and think, what did our death teach them?
No amount of sindoor or purdah can cover up the depravity that lies in scums…
Don’t even get me started on the abuse that even some men have faced,
Worst still, they barely report it, have a great time having them traced…
Did they wear something inappropriate too, or was it the mental state of the abuser?
These incidents leave a mark on you, and it tends to linger forever…
Moreover, abuses are mostly indoors, and it isn’t always physical,
Verbal, mental and many-many more are the routine of some in general…
The pressure and tension that they face cannot be explained in words,
Many succumb, many get depressed and many are irreparable and break like herds…
Breaking this pattern is the need of the hour,
And we all need that will power..
Face the abuser, be it anyone, and support the receiver at par,
Kindness and love might be the only tools to heal them from the scar..
The mentality and awareness needs to be the solution,
To listen to those in need and not mock or push aside should be our yearly resolution…
A good focus on work and will and keeping a clean slate,
Don’t do or say anything unjust, else Karma would have no wait…
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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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