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What happens when a girl's cold fire, buried deep inside, rises? Have you ever seen such a woman?
What happens when a girl’s cold fire, buried deep inside, rises? Have you ever seen such a woman?
Have you seen the girl?
Rising from the ashes,
Wrapped with an unbound grace,
Where the dark meets the darkness.
Have you seen a girl like her?
Searching for the rain,
A seeker of hope,
A wandering miracle.
With no home for love,
She is rising, alone.
Have you ever seen the girl?
Oh dear, I am not talking about the fire.
I am not talking about fairy tales.
I am talking about a woman,
Made of fire and flames.
I have seen her.
Dancing with the rhythm of,
Metamorphosis.
Shedding the skin of lies and hatred,
Of beauty and innocence,
She embraced the magic of the wilderness.
Flying with wings of desire,
Made of blazing flames and fire.
Once upon a time,
The beauty was her treasure.
But now, I have realized that,
Sometimes, beauty can be fierce.
The raging sun can burn the beauty,
She was bearing inside the delicate heart.
I have seen the cold fire.
And I have read the story,
That was hiding beneath an undying ember.
Swarnali is an Author, Blogger, Wellbeing Researcher, and Singer. She blogs at 'The Blissful Storyteller'. She runs The Peace Stories initiative where she shares stories of healing, recovery, personal winning, and self-discovery. An avid 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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