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Baby Haldar is a woman who has emerged into the limelight from a place of no opportunity.
Baby Haldar, Author of Aalo Andhari (A Life Less Ordinary)
Married as a child, a mother herself at the age of 13 – Baby Haldar’s story is no different from thousands of Indian women born into poverty. Yet, as a domestic worker, when her employer encouraged her to write, the creative spark hidden inside her exploded, and so was born her autobiography, Aalo Andhari (A Life Less Ordinary).
While A Life Less Ordinary emerged out of the darker side of Baby Haldar’s life, it has also had the effect of bringing her into the literary limelight with its success. It has since been translated into other Indian languages as well.
Why we find her inspiring:
– Baby Haldar has managed to retain a fierce interest in books and reading, a passion she had as a child, despite the difficult times she went through
– For being a rare voice in Indian fiction that tells the story of many ordinary women born and trapped in poverty
Additional reading:
Baby Haldar’s rise to literary stardom
*Photo source: Outlook.
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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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