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"What time should I set up that Zoom meeting with the client?" "Has the daughter revised for Tuesday's Physics test?" "What bills remain to be paid?”…
In my non-linear, fantastic dreams
I throb with the stuff of supernovas
I glow, burn, and burst
Throwing up light across the skies
Thrashing around in a dance so wild
I play with the dragons young and mild
Painting brash new patterns
Rewriting the course of stars
Crashing days and nights with pulsating lights.
And so on it goes
Until the east turns bright.
Wide awake
I carefully fold my dreams within the creases of my grandmother’s hand-me-down quilt
And roll up my sleeves to face the day
to make another batch of idlis, pulao and rotis,
to meet intimidating deadlines,
to pitch for more work,
and hustle on WhatsApp – to sync up with the offsprings’ schoolwork (of course!)
“Are there garbage bags in stock for the morrow?”
“What vegetables should I add to my shopping list?”
“What time should I set up that Zoom meeting with the client?”
“Has the daughter revised for Tuesday’s Physics test?”
“What bills remain to be paid?”
“Where did I (mis)place that file?”
Zip-zap-zoom
the mind goes vroom
until the torque cancels out the day’s quota for rota.
Clip clop pik pok
Rain splashes through the noise
Eager to unwind I undo my binds
and float without reserve into dreams
replete with dragons and supernovas.
Image source: Sindhu Priyadarshini Shankar
Sindhu is a writer and a mother of two. A self-confessed bibliophile and a movie buff, she finds relief and meaning in doodling, cooking, escaping to hill towns, and her friends. A big fan 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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