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Death of a loved one often comes with lot of grief, question of "why" always haunt grieving families.
Death of a loved one often comes with lot of grief, question of “why” always haunt grieving families.
Losing someone is hard,
Or seeing them for the last time to the heart’s content, is harder?
Watching them lying still on their favorite place is hard,
Or reaching out to touch the body which is getting slowly cold, is harder?
For the last time looking at them all cleaned up is hard,
Or finally sending them away from the home they chose to die, is harder?
Covering their face, with the acceptance of inability to see it again is hard,
Or helplessly watching your elders’ grieving faces, is harder?
Laying to rest a beloved in the burial pit is hard,
Or backfilling the earth on the beloved, is harder?
Losing a loved one is hard,
Or inability to perform the last ritual, is harder?
Families are indeed crazy, even when you choose to leave your body,
Family will stick by your lifeless body too, only to see your soul travel safe on the other side.
(In the loving memory of grandpa) Shashi Ram
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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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