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On May 21st this year, Arunima Sinha became the first female amputee to scale Mount Everest.
A former national level volleyball and football player, 26 year old Arunima Sinha’s life took a drastic turn 2 years back. Thrown out of a moving train for resisting a robbery, Arunima was hit by a passing train. She recovered after being in a critical condition and fighting for her life for several days. Sadly, her left leg could not be saved.
But Arunima had no place for pity in her life. Determined to not let the unfortunate incident overtake her life, Arunima decided that she had to do something about it. She started training for her feat and under the guidance of Bachendri Pal became the first woman to climb Mount Everest with prosthetic legs.
Earlier, Arunima had also qualified for the post of Head Constable with the Indian Central Industrial Security Force (CISF). Through her grit and perseverance, Arunima has proved that disability cannot defeat her spirit and zest for life.
Why we find her inspiring:
– For not letting her misfortune discourage her and instead boldly overcoming her obstacles
– For proving yet again that women can do anything if they set their minds to it
– For reinforcing the fact that differently-abled people are as talented and as capable as everyone else
*Photo source: mid-day.com.
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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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