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Every day the newspapers bring more news of girls and women abused, raped, murdered, with increasing impunity. Where is this going?!
Another day, another one, And one more trusting heart. Is shattered into smithereens, Her wings are torn apart!
Her dreams, her hopes, her life! Are mercilessly tossed aside. And then the mockery, the scorn, A thousand deaths she died.
The years go by, so many years, The dismal scene the same. More and more are laid to rest, Where once that one had lain.
Forgotten graves, each torment hushed, The memories are blurred. The dying wails though echo still, If only could be heard.
They speak of things unthinkable, Those screeching tales of pain. When beasts of prey descended and, Humanity was slain!
How many more? How many more? The cries reverberate. The sky and earth are weeping too, Already it is late!
The ashes may have blown away, The pyres frozen cold. But word by word, the agony, The stories must be told.
You shudder, want to close your eyes, But it was they who bore. The least we can, is promise now, No more, no more, no 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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