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My gratitude to these authors in whose books I found a lost part of me.
So every time someone asks me who am I or I am required to write about myself, I am completely lost. A kindergarten kid would answer that question with much more clarity than me. For the various labels that I carry of being a mother, a wife, a daughter, a women, an analyst, a writer, and such, I am in a constant search fo myself. Sometimes in the school bag, sometimes on the kitchen counter, sometimes in the bedroom and sometimes in the boardroom.
But one place where this search always culminates (and begins too) is in the leaves of a good book. So heres me expressing my gratitude to the authors of three favourite books that helped me sail through yet another year.
Khalid Hosseini: If it wasn’t your Kite Runner, I would have never tried to rekindle a broken relationship or called a long lost friend living oceans apart or never smiled through trivial ego clashes for the sake of someone dear. I love you for bringing back to my dictionary words like thank you, sorry, confession, acceptance and redemption.
Mitch Albom: I love you for sharing your Tuesdays with Morrie. How else would have I understood the value of life with its everyday blessings. Only a dying man could show how blessed are the ones with working limbs, with the views of birds and gardens around, with the love of friends and family we take for granted. And how little is the time to dance and sing and to fill each second meaningfully by touching another life.
Khalil Gibran for his ageless classic in the form of The Prophet. Which even after a century stays so fresh, so relevant. Through joys and sorrows, through pains and prayers, through miseries and laughters, through passion and reason, this one book has always been and will always be the perfect mentor.
All in all my gratitude to these authors in whose books I found a lost part of me.
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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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