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As the name suggests, ‘We Are Afghan Women: Voices of Hope’ consists of voices of women of Afghanistan. By reading the stories, one can learn that with efforts, courage and determination even the toughest of struggles can be fought. It’s inspiring to read about transformation being brought about by Afghanistan’s brave women. The issues mentioned in the book are faced by several many in other parts of the world as well making the book more relevant.
We can all, thereby, learn that one shouldn’t impose unfairly, immorally and without consideration. We can also understand that it’s absolutely wrong for anyone to claim a say in matters that they do not have a right over and spaces that don’t belong to them. At the end of the day, you can use force to get people to attend your social event or gathering but neither love nor true respect can be attained by forceful means. While the book is intriguing, it is also a reminder of how much work is still required and necessary to be done as far as women’s progress for equality is concerned.
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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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