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A look at the menstruation taboos that makes blood boil
Updated On: 10 November, 2018 01:37 PM IST | Mumbai | Priyanka Dharwadkar and Rupsa Chakraborty
Another tradition-vs-law debate continues to simmer, after violent protests keep women devotees, wanting to pray at Sabarimala temple, at bay, despite an SC order in their favour. mid-day takes a look at the issue, the legend that started it all, and
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The scenes at Sabarimala temple, since it opened its doors early last month for prayers and rituals, have been agonising and outrageous. The holy Hindu site has been besieged by protests and violence, as women devotees attempt to exercise a basic right - that of equality - after the Supreme Court lifted the 90s ban that had disallowed them from the entering the premises. Right-wing and religious organisations have, so far, refused to allow the police to implement the court order, citing tradition and legends that, they say, need to be upheld to keep menstruating women away from the temple.
My body, my rules!
Tina Kurian,
journalist
'When I was a little girl (according to the elders, a "big girl" because I'd had my period), friends and their mothers told me I could no longer take holy communion while menstruating, and I accepted that without question. However, as I grew up, I realised God was more concerned about the purity of my mind, heart and soul than that of my body. Menstruation shouldn't be grounds to deny a woman anything, be it the right to pray, play or work'
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