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When the marriage itself has no more meaning, when there is abuse and gaslighting in the relationship, what does a nuptial chain matter?
My nuptial chain has rusted, bearing upon it the dust of by-gone winds, and customs might. It has crumbled under the heavy love of age old boundries and worn-out caresses of tradition might.
My nuptial chain has rusted, corroding my heart’s love and choking away my voice, it has now become a round halter on a lifeless goat.
My nuptial chain has rusted, distancing my neck from the hands that made me wear it , it has broken me away from the world and the over-world , and confined me to the nuptial bed.
My nuptial chain has rusted, clinging around my neck like a death-killing rope that has sucked my life-force out, I no longer live, i only breathe.
My nuptial chain has rusted, leaving me alone on a river-less shore, it has now turned black from centuries of oppression, a fading testimony to a fading fate.
My nuptial chain has rusted , clutching my emotions, shattering my dreams, it has now turned blue and black and black and red, displaying the many-hued blows of torturous affection.
My nuptial chain has rusted, Clogging me down behind the mind and soul, it has born me away from God and man, into a shapeless existence.
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Isha is a 18 year old student of English Honors in Christ University. An aspiring poetess, a blundering writer and a hopelessly old school romantic, Isha, decidedly in love with English, Maddhava and all things 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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