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#Poetry. Why me? Asks this working mother wishing to be at home, then compares herself to a friend who wanted to work but could not.
#Poetry. Why me? Asks this working mother. She wishes to be at home, then compares herself to a friend who wanted to work but could not.
Again I could manage just the usual jam and bun
I wish I had time to cook for my little one.
Oh! I need to be in time for the meeting!
Endless vehicles on the road will give me a greeting
No time for breakfast again,
Wonder why I really need to take all this pain
I will have to hit the canteen after answering my mails
Back to back meetings, deadlines and audit trails
Sometimes, I ask myself, am I doing justice to both,
Home to office, office to home, on the run to and forth.
I wish I could cook for my loved ones
And play with them, but my time runs
Shwetha, my dear friend, who finished college with me
With better scores she got a coveted job, a great place to be
But marriage and motherhood took her career away
Though she has time, a feeling of emptiness was here to stay
A dutiful wife, doting mother and caring daughter that she has been
But her eyes reveal her unfulfilled dreams and talent, left unseen
Sometimes I envy her, sometimes I feel bad for her
Mother, aunt, grandmother, you spent your entire life for near and dear
Yet, you seemed happy, was it satisfaction or simple needs, I wonder
If I start weighing things on the balance of life
On one there is sacrifice, on the other there’s stress and strife
On one there is time, on the other there’s money
Life is a mixture of lemon and honey
Sometimes sour, sometimes sweet
Like the changing seasons of cold and heat
But why do I, as a woman always have to make a choice
Between speaking up for myself or suppressing my voice
Between being there for my children or fulfilling my dreams
Everytime I try to fly up high, why do I hear screams
Why do I have to answer a million questions on the ride?
Why do I feel like I am up against a tide?
Why?
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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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