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Do you shrink yourself to accommodate?
Curving yourself into a flattened ball?
Stretching your instincts in a such a way
That you feel drained,
And there’s not a drop left to pour?
Do you nod compulsively?
Do you carry the solidified residues of all those moments you weren’t there for yourself?
Is your cup parched dry, with cracks on the rim?
It’s time to generously fill it with whatever you can gather,
Hunt, search and source
And abundantly refill yourself to your heart’s content.
Whatever it takes,
For, how do you continue to pour from an empty cup?
Prabha Prakash is a Chartered Accountant, based out of Kerala. Her first collection of poetry, “Lost Monsoon” was published by Writers’ Workshop, Kolkata in 2018. She is the recipient of the Reuel International Prize for 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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