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In honour of Father’s Day: Swapan Seth, Co-founder of Equus Red Cell and a veteran of the advertising industry, talks about parenting and what fatherhood means.
Swapan Seth with his wife and two boys
In honour of Father’s Day: Swapan Seth, Co-founder of Equus Red Cell and a veteran of the advertising industry, talks about parenting and what fatherhood means to him.
Swapan’s is a 5-member family including his wife, two sons and a lovely Labrador called Jagger.
Give us a single word that encapsulates what fatherhood means to you.
Friendship. Are you a different father today than what your father was? How? In what ways are you similar?
These are different times. Technology has eclipsed many cultural divides. Parents and children have access to the same stimuli. Plus parenting has become a far more involved activity than it was when we were growing up. Earlier parents would lead their children. Now they follow them. At least that is my parenting philosophy: To follow rather than lead.
How would you describe your fathering style?
Bipolar. Tough yet easy.
Has fatherhood been as you expected it to be? If no, what was the biggest difference between your expectations and reality?
Oh it turned out to be much more fun than I expected it to be.
What is the most important lesson that fatherhood has taught you?
That one must be open to learn and not just teach.
*Photo credit: Swapan Seth.
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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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