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Being a girl in India is hard, says this teenager, growing up in a patriarchal society. But, she says, her family, where she can be herself, more than makes up for this.
Being a girl in India is hard I’ll say, Especially when having dreams isn’t okay! It’s frustrating when society criticizes every move, And everything you wear has to be approved!
People have eyes on me everywhere, They watch me with a swift, startling stare. They monitor every place I go, Everything I do, they claim they should know?
Indian society doesn’t think girls have what it takes; They think that we can’t keep up with the stakes. They still believe we are just frail and fragile, And that competition is something we can’t survive.
Happily, there are parents, who encourage their girls, To keep dreaming, take on people in the world. They are parents like mine who want me to see, To rise above everything that life will throw at me.
My family believes that I can be, Anything and everything, I want to be. They don’t care if the society approves Because societal thinking should improve.
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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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