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Watching the play of light coming through a keyhole on the ceiling in her dark room at night, and the particles of duct in the rays, the poet wonders.
Dark night gives pleasure to hear things quiet I ignore throughout the day- days week -weeks year-years The breath going in coming out create a melody I’m mustn’t miss.
Ceiling above me create a pattern of poetry with light when a small keyhole in the door allows the aura to seep into, It is deep and clear the dust particles are dancing in it Do they also talk like us? or Do they just exist? like some of us!
Now when I quit the porch of my house, things become a little louder yet allow me to hear the fluttering of maple leaves or flickering of old street lamps Leaves are the ones, who are yellow and dead they fall on the lake covered with algae they met kissed and celebrated death. Lamps who are rusted yet flicker in hope of another day. I noticed all this yet it isn’t just me living in this city of poems…
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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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