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Since my birth I have been told I need to change
I need to change my habits, to fit into a not so perfect world.
I need to change my dressing sense, to hide myself from the not so perfect world.
I need to change the way I talk, to listen to the not so perfect world.
I need to keep silent, to be suppressed by the not so perfect world.
And one day I changed, I changed for myself and not for the not so perfect world.
I have evolved like a seedling from underneath the soil on this earth to survive in the not so perfect world.
I now can withstand the sun, the rain and the snow, the hard winds and all kind of storms.
I now know my strengths, I now can fight with all my weakness.
Yes! I have changed, I have embraced it all. I’m happy with this change in the not so perfect world.
I have, I can and I will survive in this not so perfect world.
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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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