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Celebrate your friendships! Write about a special friend for August’s As You Write It writing theme - get published and win goodies!
Best Friends
Celebrate your friendships! Write about a special friend for August’s As You Write It writing theme – get published and win goodies!
Who can survive without friends? A life without friends is a miserable one indeed. This Friendship Day let your creativity flow and write about a beautiful friendship you share with any one of your dearest friends. What does this person’s friendship mean to you? How did you meet this friend? What makes this friendship special? Share your Friendship Story with us.
Where to send: Send in your story to [email protected] with ‘Friendship Story’ in the subject line, and your story as a word/txt attachment. Please avoid typing the story as inline text. Do include the name we should use if we publish it, and a brief introduction to yourself (2-3 lines) in the mail.
By when: Please send in your stories by August 12th 2012. The 5 best stories will be published on Women’s Web the following week, i.e. August 13th onwards.
Rules:
– The material should be previously unpublished elsewhere. (Copyright stays with you and you’re free to subsequently publish it elsewhere).
– Keep it between 250 and 600 words.
GOODIES!
Each published entry gets a Flipkart voucher worth Rs.200.
*Photo credit: Lina (Used under the Creative Commons Attribution License.)
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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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