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“Girl, girl, girl…”
The voices echo!
Her lips are dry,
Her heart aches once again,
And the traumas of life resurface!
So what, if she gave her
Every drop of sweat,
Every pound of flesh,
Every unannounced tear
To those whom she called her own,
The words still keep reverberating,
“You are a girl!”
She has witnessed so many ordeals-
Ragged for not being a good cook,
Mocked at for not getting dowry,
Being inappropriately touched,
And yet, remaining silent was the only choice she had!
For, she was a girl!
However, unlike the previous times,
She composes back herself very fast,
Peeps at herself in the mirror,
And asks, “Don’t you think that I am beautiful?
I still know how to stand tall
Despite the challenges?”
The mirror, her only friend smiles back,
And replies, “Yes, you are!
I am not a mirror with magical charms
Though standing majestically on the wall-
But I am a mirror with a heart,
And every inch of me says
That you are beautiful
For no one has a heart like you!”
She smiles,
And sets off to conquer
Newer hemispheres!
She knows that she can
For she’s a girl
And accepting challenges was the only option
That she’s always known!
Neelam Saxena Chandra is an Engineering graduate from VNIT and has done her Post Graduation Diploma in IM&HRD and also in Finance. She has completed a summer course in Finance from London School of read more...
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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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