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How is age measured? Is it the barely-heard tick-tock of your sparingly used Fitbit, Or the obvious streak of gray that you got for free?
How is age measured?
Is it the barely-heard tick-tock
of your sparingly used Fitbit,
Or the obvious streak of gray
that you got for free?
Is it the invisibility cloak
that lets you see
caprices of the men
who once fawned over you?
Is it seeing all those babies you held
Now grown-up and glued to TikTok?
Or the folded sarees in your wardrobe,
precious moments gathered in their folds?
Older, none the wiser,
Age admits her defeat,
Her hands up in despair,
At the likes of me.
Am I on the wheel of time
Or watching it from afar?
Because, you know,
Frames of reference.
8-year-old heart,
or 22-year-old dreams?
40 years old regrets,
or decades of people-pleasing?
And 60 years (or so it seems!)
Of making stupid decisions!
Tell me again.
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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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