Being A Learner!

All right, so this issue of women of menstruating age, aren't allowed to enter the Sabiramala Temple, and the recent judgement which comes as a relief to the previous blunder of defying the practice. When movies like Padman, Toilet are released worldwide, it gives us an idea of what the general mentality of people is, with respect to hygiene and menstruation , in modern day India. Though it is sad to look at , what's even more depressing is the take on the situation prevelant, trying to potray it as a culture which considers menstruation as something impure, women a class lower to men. It is indeed disappointing to see all the cultural failures, when people fail to recognise that the Kamkhya Temple,Assam where the devi here is worshipped in the form a Yoni. They celebrate the Ambubachi Mela, a festival marking thedevi going through her annual mensuration cycle. A culture where menarche is celebrated in many places across India as Ritu Kala Samskara, whe...

It seems, many of my acquaintances are disappointed with my conduct, my writing, my so called Liberal attitude. This is probably the first and last time I am writing on this topic. I was born and brought up in Hyderabad for the first 15 years of my life, a city with half population Hindus, and half Muslims. There was a time when I have been to a mosque to perform namaz, there was a time when I would visit my a Muslim guy's home at every Eid, to wish him. He would work at my dad's office, I am not sure but I don't think any of you would step anywhere in the locality, and his house. Sewaiyan at Eid was quite common a dish to have . We visited the Ajmer Dargah with our family, we never thought there was anything wrong in it, for my parent's are quite liberal in these matters. I went to the extent that I thought , I should atleast keep one roza in a year, but looking at how most of people break the roza, and eat sometimes the entire night, while just reversing the chores ...