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The fate of women who dare to defy the norm is often forced silence!
Men were afraid, read their hidden potent;
Being dangerous to their small ego,
Women have been hushed to meet their intent.
They dread that poet; whose words pierce their mind;
Fearing for whom and when, she ink her thoughts;
Was silenced by some gun shots.
Miss Bold, defied accepting his celibacy, was strangulated and thrown into a pit
By that elite and socialite cheat.
Sattviki was a beauty, unattainable by the coward men
So was robbed of her chastity; and silenced in a running van.
Damini was an outcast but an orator of full might;
She was burnt in name of a witch, and others fell quiet.
Latika was beautiful but an orphan,
Was framed into a willing woman whom the priest meets at midnight.
And was silenced behind red lights.
Kalika was black and bloodthirsty, was fed with guilt to make her silent.
Most others were calm and of lesser menace;
accepted patriarch’s trick as their fate;
and were kept at home to decorate.
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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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