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The love I wanted was pure and restless. Where there were no judgements and only bliss. No one loved me the way I wished,
If music comes from a broken heart,
Mine would’ve sung a million songs,
If love is what you desire,
I wouldn’t have been broken from the start.
For the love I wanted was pure and restless,
Irrevocable and true and serene,
Where one could just lie and hope to live forever,
Where there were no judgements and everything was a bliss.
Nowhere can I find that love,
Am I so undesirable?
No one loved me the way I wished,
And still I yearn for some attention and trove.
Sometimes hugs can join your pieces,
Sometimes they can break you further apart,
Wherever I went, I didn’t find that unconditional love,
And my desire to be understood was amiss.
Maybe I should learn to be alone more often,
And desire for no one at all,
For gods sometimes enjoy your misery,
And make it even more permanent than you want.
With my phone switched off and no one around,
My mind wonders and wanders,
I am left to be alone and squander,
And yet told to be “strong” and bound.
If you were so alone, you’d know my pain,
And my only desire to be understood well,
Just one person would do my God,
Let all my pain be gone and slain.
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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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