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I try to make my parents proud, but the distance between us is a heavy shroud. I can't answer Mom's video call, or reply to Dad's message, I feel so small.
Away from home, I roam the world,
A lonely traveller, with dreams unfurled.
I miss the taste of mom’s home-cooked meals,
And dad’s scoldings, that once made me feel.
The nights are long, and the days are tough,
I work and study, but never enough.
I come back home, with no energy to spare,
Sleeping hungry, or eating leftovers, I don’t dare.
I try to make my parents proud,
But the distance between us is a heavy shroud.
I can’t answer Mom’s video call,
Or reply to Dad’s message, I feel so small.
Why is adulthood so difficult to bear,
Why can’t we go back, to a fair time?
When Sundays were for playing with Dad,
And Mom’s food, made us feel so glad.
I miss those days, with all my heart,
When life was simple, we played our part.
But now I must keep moving on,
And hope that someday, I’ll be back where I belong.
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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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