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One says standing facing the mirror, her inner girl demanded an explanation
It seemed she could never meet her standards. The high levels that always seemed so far fetched. To the outside world she was great, an independent thinker, an achiever, value creator. But to her own self, she was so ungenerous, stingy and demanding.
One says standing facing the mirror, her inner girl demanded an explanation. An explanation for missed appreciations, an explanation for unexplained coldness.
And she had no words to say in her defence, for once and all she felt ashamed. Ashamed of having failed to please her own soul, ashamed of depriving her of all the love…
She looked into her eyes and made a promise!
A promise to give her the due credit she deserved, a promise to nurture and celebrate her and make her feel proud.
Since that day, they have been best friends!
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Meenakshi is a Manager working with Accenture Strategy. She is passionate about her job and her corporate career. She is mother of a very energetic 9 year old boy and has a 4 year old 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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