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Poetry: Promises once made in love, were broken by the man. A woman is again asked to sacrifice her career and stay in the kitchen.
Romantic love bloating with
forever waiting promises made on
garden benches in Gulmohar tree parks
on sprinkled early mornings and late evenings
coming to an end too soon.
The metal ring beautiful
on those thin light-colored fingers
getting close-knit cover under
his selected sky-blue shirt
left on white cotton bed sheet
of Hotel Room 301 and continued
for more honey makeovers
and impassioned cries of indulgence.
“No! It’s all pulpy my girl
the best figure, slanting waist, fuller chest
she’s mine
I love her for a lifetime.”
But reality of fake love broke
devastated with a shocking laughter.
“Oh Saba! Why don’t you suspend
all your career-making?
It’s for what?
a woman you are
not a man who needs earnings
sit back at home and try recipes of corn
get me supper now!”
“But you guaranteed support utmost,
love is hollow without it all?”
“Don’t think
and argue much now
it’s all done
why bother now?”
“Things convert
free outside, obsessed within
ever-changing faith
and things we should now see!”
Image Credit: Image by Alex Agrico from Pixabay
Sonali Sharma belongs to Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India. She is a postgraduate in environmental studies from Panjab University Chandigarh, India. She is also a published poet and writer. Her poems have appeared in the Indian Periodical, 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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