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As cliché as it may look, but it can't be ignored that getting married, is a lot different for a woman than it's for a man and that's a fact.
A wedding, the most awaited and happiest moment of one’s life, as they say, it carries far more different meaning and significance than its representation. The joy and celebration it brings to both the families involved too carries the same or different level of significance at times.
As cliché as it may look, but it can’t be ignored that getting married, is a lot different for a woman than it’s for a man and that’s a fact.
The changes it can bring in a woman’s life can’t be compared to that of a man, for it is still the most important and many at times the only criterion required to be called successful and happy in life.
Especially for a woman in India, no matter whatever hardships and struggles one has gone through to achieve personal success, getting married is still seen as the biggest achievement.
Above all, if a woman has crossed a certain age becomes an entirely different issue and public matter. It becomes more of an obligation out of guilt that she is slowly becoming a burden of some kind to her parents or family, no matter how much successful she is in life.
I may sound against this auspicious idea, but it’s not that. For as long as I can remember getting married was never my idea of settling down, though I never looked down upon it, but it never occurred to me as one of my life goals.
Some may say it to be a side effect of women’s empowerment, but for me, this stems deeper. We say that we as society are moving forwards towards being more progressive and liberal lifestyle than ever before, which excludes the fact that getting married, is not a regressive idea.
But considering it as the only thing to measure how much successful and happy or settled in life a person is, becomes a wrong yardstick which not only at a whole different level but absolutely out of sync.
I have always believed being financially independent and mentally strong is more important than the getting married. Though I do believe that marriage is important for emotional well-being, but that does not make it superior to everything else that will happen in life.
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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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