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‘What is it Amma?’ the child asked in wide-eyed innocence. The mother smiled, ‘Just another day,’ And like a hopeful bubble, she flew, and gently floated.
And somewhere in the vastness of the azure skyFloated a flimsy, dainty bubble of her hope,Ascending even as her own tentative aspirationsDescended into the humdrum of mundanity.
Clutching the pallu of her crushed cotton sareeHer daughter looked up, as her mother sighed.‘What is it Amma?’ she asked in wide-eyed innocence.The mother smiled, ‘Just another day,’ she said.
A life that had been steeped in traditionShe had lived to the obeisance to others.But the time was nigh now to emerge fromThe shadows that tied her to the servitude.
Holding onto the fragile thread of her hopeShe looked into the angelic eyes of her child.‘If I do not break free now too, she willBe relegated to obscurity like me,’ she surmised.
‘Can I let that happen? Can I let my daughterRetreat into the shadows just like I was made to?NO!’ She shook her head, a vehement oppositionOf her shackles and tugged at the rope that tethered.
Still wrapped in her six yards of shroud, she broke freeOf traditional orthodox tenets and cultural subjugation.Like the hopeful bubble fluttering in the azure leaShe too, flew, gently floated on the warm free breeze.
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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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