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On the path of self reliance, she found a taste of freedom and a dream realised.
Fate did brandish its sword,
for a long time, to intimidate me.
Sabotaging my numerous noble efforts,
to realize my unfulfilled dream,
to break free.
I was pushed, I was shoved,
and countless catastrophes,
attempted to crush,
my rebellious being.
But then fate gave in,
when it tasted my resilience.
And even showered me,
with a thoughtful parting gift.
And that was,
to have the strength and spirit,
to break free,
thus fulfilling,
my long unfulfilled dream.
This poem was one of the winning poems in Asian Literary Society’s weekly poetry contest on the topic ‘Unfulfilled Dream’ and was published in ALS blog spot.
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Indrani Chowdhury is an award winning modern Indian author whose works have been published in various national and international anthologies, magazines, and journals. Her own book 'Raining Drops of Rainbow Verses' got published by Notionpress 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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