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A womans anguish towards rape with her heart going out to the victims.
In the darkness of thoughts
The inner battles that I fought
The world has emerged from incessant crisis
My deep thoughts are in a state of metamorphosis
I believe, I hope, I deeply desire
That mankind doesn’t objectify my body on fire
Why scan me? Torment me with your aggressive eyes
You succumb my dreams to a bucket of lies
Your negative flames are multiplying & spreading in every corner of this country
Burning my inner hopes and poisoning my soulful tree
I can still hear voices of the poor infant, Nirbhaya, the old woman, the poor woman and the less fortunate
All tied up with this universal thought of blaming fate
Why rape? Why rape? Why rape?
The world wasn’t that horrendous even with dinosaurs or apes
Why mankind has put itself to sheer shame
All the laws, policies and systems has turned deaf and lame
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Neha Chawla is the Founder of NGOStory. A passionate writer and social educationist, she has been working for many NGOs and foundations conducting awareness programs for psychological well being and children empowerment. An Arts graduate 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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