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The first female recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Award, Amrita Pritam articulated the social plight and sexual aspirations of women.
Amrita Pritam, hailed from pre-partition India. Her works – the celebrated ‘Ode to Waris Shah’ and ‘Pinjar’, her most acclaimed novel, were inspired by the mindless bloodbath of 1947 Partition and the barbarous physical abuse women suffered on both sides of the border.
Amrita wrote prolifically both in Punjabi and Hindi. Her oeuvre comprised of over 75 books – several anthologies of poetry, short stories, autobiographies and novels – all of which are marked by a deep humanism and sensuousness.
In Amrita’s works, we find defiant women protagonists who strive to break free from the proscriptive social norms imposed by a patriarchal setup, as also a candid exploration of the feminine sexuality.
Why we find her inspiring:
– Because she was the first feminist writer Punjab ever had
– Because she strove to give Punjabi women an identity and voice that went beyond conventional narratives
– Because she held her own against narrow-minded, gender discrimination
– Because she lived life – vividly and on her own terms
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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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