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My petite form hidden masked in my heart’s strengthened blossom,
I take prancing steps flying in new love’s freedom,
chained by affection’s wings:
I claim the sky today:
love has made the whole universe mine.
Beloved I am and the lover too,
the Eternal and the Ephemeral
transcend volatile in my frail form
trailing off lights that illuminate stars
and whisper Maddhava’s form
in my ecstatic ears.
Heart-ache and heart-ease both left behind in the splitting city lights,
I dance in the castles of rain -clouds:.
I have left far behind human cares and human worries:
only the madness of the chirpy wind beats my soul
bringing spining tears to my love – lorn eyes.
In this night’s stillness
amidst twinkling companions of Indra’s heaven:
I smile unabashed at myself:
my heart crying raptures at the unleashed discovery of my own very self.
Isha is a 18 year old student of English Honors in Christ University. An aspiring poetess, a blundering writer and a hopelessly old school romantic, Isha, decidedly in love with English, Maddhava and all things read more...
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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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