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This poem is an effort to explore the feelings of a girl child orphaned by war.
She wandered lonely in a desolate world
A tiny petal, no land to call her own
Like a dandelion seed, let loose in the wind
She flitted around, on the war torn earth.
A warm breeze blew, gently picked her up
Tossed and carried her on its wily wings.
Till a barbed wire fence blocked her path
No! They couldn’t cross- she or her things.
Dejected, dismayed she fell to the ground
Where more like her lay littered and bleeding.
Her spirit broken, she looked around weeping
Her brethren fled, only warring armies remained
Just idle petals, a flower they would never be
In war, they had no land to find roots in.
Oh, they’d be crushed, their fragrance forgotten
In the ugly, clamorous, avaricious din.
Author’s note – This poem is an effort to explore the feelings of a girl child orphaned by war
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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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