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The phenomenon of ageing and acquiring grey hair expressed in an interesting poetic description.
The rhapsody of black and white
Fused lines between tassels muted and bright
At ease, a salt pepper palette of cutting edge
Goodness of an oversized mane or a quirky wedge
A paradoxical source of resilience and strength
Breaking perceptions about monotony in length
Highlights a symbol of ageless pigments
A contoured look, slaying with smudged vignettes
In fact, the grey mane is your splendorous mess
While the black warriors through daily stress
What does this trophy mean to you, why go this way?
Changes to, ooooohhhh how long does the silver stay?
I know each strang gathers stories, takes a brave fight
Completes my sassiness with a blend of poetic highlights
A way to live with ambiguity, and some non negotiables
One grey strand after another to shatter those fables
I started by just testing a thought, an imagined hypothesis
Succumbing to authenticity is easier than keeping up appearances
What it means to embrace life as delivered, accept a glass half full
A cocktail of salt, pepper and autumns does create a palpable pull
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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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