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This poem is a battle cry. It is a reaffirmation of the author's belief in her own strength and her ability to shed shackles and rise.
This poem is a battle cry. It is a reaffirmation of the author’s belief in her own strength and her ability to shed shackles and rise.
I have spent a lifetime in the shadows Veiled from the world Following mutely in your footsteps, Hiding behind your form.
I have been stowed, in the gallows Like a veiled Madonna Shown only to enhance your stature And then shut out again.
That has been my life, my destiny. So far that I have accepted, But the fires of feminism that rage In me, refuse to ebb now.
My battered soul demands succour My bleeding lips and My bruised heart, need to be heard For enough is enough!
Image is a still from Wonder Woman
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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