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A thought-provoking poem about women's independence. Women still have to reach home by 8 pm and independent India still doesn’t let women dress as they please.
India got its independence 75 years ago
While we praise sacrifices of Bhagat Singh, Mahatma Gandhi and Pandit Nehru
Lost are the names of the women fighters who contributed equally to them
We seldom talk about Matangini Hazra, Kittur Rani Chennamma or Jhalkar Bai.
Most of us wouldn’t have even heard of them
Fast forward to 2021, in the era of technological revolutions where we have reached interstellar space…
Still women are struggling to reach home by 8
While Bollywood movies still glorifies character like Kabir Singh and slut shame characters like Veronica.
We live in era were we are judged by the clothes we wear
Visible thighs and cleavage is enough to slut shame
Independent India still doesn’t provide women independence to dress
Speak your mind? Too opinionated
Doesn’t speak? Attitude issues
Outgoing? Easy to go
Reserved? Too proud
Western dress? Too modern
Indian dress? Too old fashioned
Standing here I question you!
Is this freedom where you are supposed to walk, talk, work, wear, behave according to some stereotypical guidelines set by the society for women??
The day 48% of our population can be whoever she wants to be is when we truly get independent! #notindependent
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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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