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The lockdown has helped us understand many of the things we once used to take for granted and often disregarded. Has this been the time to heal and change?
The milkman, the paperboy,
Or the presswala, don’t come knocking anymore.
Like the housemaid,
And the cook, they too no longer report for work.
Where have they gone?
The doorbell does not ring.
Its plaintive song in the core of our home is not heard.
The dog remains silent.
He does not bark in mad frenzy at the peal of the bell.
What has happened?
The streets are quiet too.
They no longer resound with honks, blares and such.
The housing society is mute.
The giggles, chortles and yells of the kids are absent.
Has something gone wrong?
The phones do not ring,
Neither do I hear the insistent ding of incoming messages.
There is no mad scramble.
My workstation now awaits me with a languid somnolence.
Has something changed subtly?
The mornings are now serene.
The birds come chirping more often, hopping at the sill.
The mewling cat at my doorstep
Purrs in content, in sync with the crows and cheeping sparrows.
Are they that happy?
The world seems to have changed.
It has shifted its balance and now revolves in placidity.
The universe seems calmer now.
As if it sits in a meditative trance, in deep introspection.
Is this a new dawn for mankind?
I am flummoxed.
I have questions, arisen out of my confusion and doubt.
I am struggling to comprehend,
This new beat of the world that is so much more preferable.
It is better, is it not?
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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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