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In honour of Mother’s Day, May’s writing theme is all about mothers. Share the lessons you’ve learnt from your mother, get published and win goodies.
Mothers are our first teachers. Over the years they pass on several nuggets of wisdom, from the small ones like ‘make sure to clean behind your ears’ to the really big ones too. This Mother’s Day, tell us what you leant from your mother. Share your ‘Lessons From Ma’ with us – whether these are touching, inspiring or funny!
Where to send: Send in your story to [email protected] with ‘Lessons From Ma’ in the subject line, and your story as a word/txt attachment. 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 May 20th. The 5 best stories will be published on Women’s Web the following week, i.e. May 21st 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– The material should be previously unpublished elsewhere.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!
Courtesy Westland Books, each person whose entry is chosen for publishing on Women’s Web gets a copy of Chicken Soup For The Indian Mother’s Soul as well Bringing Up Vasu.
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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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