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Women here, women there. Do you still know who she is? Can you bottle her in a definition? An attempt at containing what being a woman means.
Clever as a devil, Twice as pretty, Mind like thunder, A woman she is.
She stands tall, She rises above sorrows, She deals with grief, A woman she is.
She can be a daughter, She can be a lover, She can be a mother, A woman she is.
She loves when loved, She loves when hated, For she is compassionate, A woman she is.
She deals with sufferings, She deals with cruellest blows, She is fearless, A woman she is.
People mock her, As people secretly admire her, Complete in her, A woman she is.
She is a balm for all bruised souls, She is also envied, As she is a poet everyone loves, A woman she is.
Call her sexy, Call her beautiful, Call her donnish, A woman she is.
Life offers her challenges, She laughs at them, Do you know her? As a woman she is.
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Rimli Bhattacharya is a First class gold medalist in Mechanical Engineering from National Institute of Technology, an MBA in supply chain management and is engaged with a corporate sector. Her essay in the anthology “Book 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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