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The Indian government sells its slogan “Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao” to its innocent women to gain the vote bank of the female population. It is the biggest farce and hypocrisy sold by the Indian government to its women. The Indian government is racist, and nepotistic and favours only minority women.
I started my career in US MNCs in India 20 years ago after my post-graduation in America in 2003. I have seen the politics, male dominance and favouritism by the Indian and US management in India-based US MNCs. For middle-class families education is the only weapon that can help you keep your finances going throughout your life. So we were sold the dream of an American education by people who told us that it would be an investment.
However, after started working in India, I have been earning only peanuts in US MNCs where I have been subjected to bullying, ridicule, mental and sexual harassment and degrading treatment. I have been subjected to threats, intimidation and forced resignations. The IT management doesn’t consider degrees for job-related purposes. They only focus on skills. Then why does America sell the idea of studying at a US university to gullible middle-class Indians?
America’s policies are only invested in bringing in International students because they help the US economy and not retain International employees. India’s policies are only invested in bringing up the backward classes and minorities.
My parents have been cheated out of their savings and I have been cheated out of IT MNCs.
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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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