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Is a woman's body nothing but a battler ground? The poet writes; the battle cries reverberate, hail the honour, vengeance, pride. A lesson, warning, payback time, her body, is a convenient site.
Hidden, concealed, her breath a whisper,
Eyes alert, scanning, aware.
For she is wise, has seen the others,
Everything was stripped, vacant, bare.
The flames are high, licking away,
Voracious appetites that cannot be filled.
Devouring, and consuming, the ashes rise,
Charred bodies, blackened hills.
She knows, she sees, she hears them clearly,
Coming for her, incensed, enraged!
Shrieks of fury, frantic eyes,
A faceless mob, a war, has been waged.
The relentless sun, she shivers though,
A heart that hammers wild and fast.
Who are they? She has not seen it before.
Deadened eyes, frozen masks.
Revealed! The hideout safe no more,
A dozen desperate hands descend,
Groping, pulling, striking hard,
Another one, another end.
The clothes that lie in tattered bits,
Her hair was in fistfuls by the side.
The battle cries reverberate,
Hail the honour, vengeance, pride.
A lesson, warning, payback time,
Her body, is a convenient site.
A battlefield, them and us,
A pawn to set the record right.
Why me? Her dying eyes, they ask,
I know you not, I know them not.
Your blood, a cleansing of their sins,
Collateral in this war we fought!
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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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