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Eyes are the mirror to your heart and when the heart is full of sorrow, tears will flow free.
Teetering on the brink of my rim fringed with curling lashes,
Dissonant they wait tentatively seeking permission to flow.
Perhaps the shadows of the past intrude, impinge on today?
Creeping up in weak moments they lay siege on my heart.
My sodden lids bear the brunt of the sorrowful emotions
That sear as if cleaved with a hot dagger dipped in venom.
A tremble in my lip as I grapple to hold my sorrow at bay
But alas! I blink and they fall, unhindered, a river of dolor.
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Sonal is a multiple award winning blogger and writer and the founder of a women-centric manpower search firm - www.rianplacements.com. Her first book, a volume of poetry - Islands in the stream - is slated 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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