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Wednesday, December 3, 2025
TopicMenstruation

Topic: Menstruation

Apple has a menstruation emoji now, and here’s why it matters

Nandita Singh -
Gender activists call Apple's move 'interesting' for 'visibilising and normalising taboos'.

Don’t ask women the period question. Ever

Melissa K Ochoa -
Women in many cultures have been denied equal access to public spaces and career opportunities for one reason: having a uterus.

Symptoms of schizophrenic women change tones with menstrual cycle, study shows

Sandhya Ramesh -
Study was conducted at a tertiary care mental hospital in eastern India, where the moods of 40 schizophrenia patients were monitored for 15 months.

In ‘Oscar Hapur’, menstrual period is still a conversation only among women

Deeksha Bhardwaj -
In Kathikhera, the village where Oscar-winning documentary Period. End of Sentence was filmed, menstruation remains a stigma that elicits whispers & giggles.

When others tell our stories: Why Oscar win for ‘Period’ is yet another Slumdog moment

Kaveree Bamzai -
Like Period, both Bohemian Rhapsody and Slumdog Millionaire were films waiting for Indians to make them.

Menstrual hygiene must be made part of Swachh Bharat & Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao

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Some sects of Hinduism encourage sex during your periods

Nithin Sridhar -
Menstrual blood is, in fact, considered pure and sacred, and plays a very important role in certain Tantric rituals.

Next door to Sabarimala temple district, a menstruating goddess is worshipped

Rohini Swamy -
The Chengannur Mahadeva Kshetram is located in Kerala’s Alappuzha district, which neighbours Pathanamthitta, where Sabarimala temple is situated.

Smriti Irani must know India is at a tipping point and women aren’t seeking permission

Deeksha Bhardwaj -
At the heart of the backlash against the entry of women into Sabarimala temple and #MeToo is a common pattern – men still decide.

Not just a bar at Sabarimala, menstruation has got women ostracised & labelled witches

Sandhya Ramesh -
It may not be the primary argument, but the age bar at Sabarimala has often been justified as an attempt to keep out ‘impure’ menstruating women.
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India to commission new squadron of submarine-hunting Romeo choppers in Goa later this month

Keshav Padmanabhan -
The helicopters produced by Lockheed Martin are known as ‘submarine hunters’. India ordered 24 of these aircraft in 2020 to replace the Sea King helicopters. 15 have been delivered till date.

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Gaali cricket: Bavuma stands tall, India’s Test ego cut to size

Shekhar Gupta -
The India-South Africa series-defining fact is the catastrophic decline of Indian red ball cricket where a visiting team can mock us with the 'grovel' word.

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