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You don't get to decide my life for me, you don't get to control it, and then hand the control over to another man.
My life is NOT your kite, So, you don’t get to decide, How long, how far, how smooth I glide.
My life is NOT your kite, You don’t get to hand over the spool And leave it for the next MAN to decide.
My life is NOT YOUR kite, You don’t get to reel me out or reel me in And control my flight.
My life is MY OWN kite, and only I decide How long, how far, how smooth I choose to glide.
You don’t get to decide my life for me, you don’t get to control it, and then hand the control over to another man.
Image source: a still from the film Masaan
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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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