Scanners for menstrual blood

Published on 29th November, 2015, in Mid-day. If you want to project the temple of Ayyappa at Sabarimala in Kerala, and Hinduism as general, as an indicator of communal harmony, you can point to the dargah of Vavar-swami that is an integral part of the pilgrimage to the mountain shrine. If you want to project the temple, and the religion, as a manifestation of patriarchy, you have to point to the practice of not letting menstruating women be part of the pilgrimage. Only men allowed in this temple – men who have spent at least 40 days in celibacy and thus ‘purified’. Someone recently mentioned ..