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These 10 Women's Web posts are opinionated in the best way possible, and touched readers' hearts and minds. Make sure you don't miss them!
These 10 Women’s Web posts are opinionated in the best way possible, and touched readers’ hearts and minds. Make sure you don’t miss them!
2015 was a very ‘happening’ year for Women’s Web.
We grew as a community to include over 700 contributors and added many thousands of new readers.
We enabled our community members, especially in Bangalore and Mumbai to meet each other at fun and learning events.
We had interesting writing contests and blogathons and launched our Youtube channel too. Our core team grew as well to support all of these initiatives.
Best of all, besides the story the numbers tell, we also published a diversity of voices, allowing women to support each other, learn from each other and laugh with each other.
At the close of this year, I thought it is a great time to bring to you some of the most popular reads on Women’s Web this year. If you are a regular reader, you can revisit some posts that touched hearts and minds, and if you are new to Women’s Web, its a great collection to get started with.
Don’t Judge Women On Their Bangles, Bindis & Bicchiyas by Saumya Goyal
The Wedding Night [Short Story] by Gita Negi
My Apology Letter For Failing To Be The Ideal Bahu/Beti In Our Society by Swati Agarwal
Raising Confident Daughters by Paromita Bardoloi
11 Misconceptions About NRI Women by Vrushali J
Why Is A Woman’s Virginity So Important? by Sreesha Divakaran
The Antithesis [Short Story] by Tanvi Sinha
Why I Don’t Look Foreign Returned by Prashila Naik
Divorced At 25: How I Rebuilt My Life And Triumphed by Tanvi Sinha
Love, Rotis And A Pinch Of Wisdom From A Mother by Preethi Venugopala
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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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