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An evocative poem that delineates the inner turmoil of a woman.
She stood there,
Looking at the picture she had just painted.
She stood staring at the possibilities,
her eyes soaking in the bright colours on the canvass.
She fell in love with the smiles she had painted,
the happiness she created with her brush strokes,
for she had painted everything that was amiss in her life.
As the smell of fresh colours filled the room,
she stood still listening to her heart racing.
A fleeting thought,
a brief moment of realisation of a possibility,
a shadow of a smile later,
She turned her back to the painting
And walked back into her world of darkness thinking,
Someday. Just not today. But, someday indeed!
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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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