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At the year end, our writing theme is all about ‘Endings’. Share your Endings story with us - get published and win goodies!
Writing theme: Endings
At the year end, our writing theme is all about ‘Endings’. Share your Endings story with us – get published and win goodies!
Endings are powerful. They hold the hint of happiness in the promise of new beginnings. And then there are those that can also break your heart with their note of finality. How do you view endings? Were there any particular endings that made you heave a sigh of relief and be glad that it was all over? Or were there endings which you desperately tried to avoid – but had to eventually give in, with a heavy heart, to the inevitable? Tell us about the noteworthy endings in your life and you might get published at Women’s Web.
Where to send: Send in your story to [email protected] with ‘Endings’ in the subject line, and your story as a word/txt attachment. Please avoid typing the story as inline text. Do include the name we should use if we publish it, and a brief introduction to yourself (2-3 lines) in the mail.
By when: Please send in your stories by December 23rd 2012. The 5 best stories will be published on Women’s Web the following week, i.e. December 24th onwards.
Rules:
– The material should be previously unpublished elsewhere. (Copyright stays with you and you’re free to subsequently publish it elsewhere).
– Keep it between 250 and 600 words.
Goodies:
The 5 best entries will each win a Flipkart voucher worth Rs. 200.
*Photo credit: Kriss Szkurlatowski.
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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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