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Sabrimala Judgement

  • Driven by notions of purity and impurity
    Driven by notions of purity and impurity
    Thu, 11/01/2018 - 14:15

    While heated debates and discussions were expected after the Supreme Court’s Sabarimala judgment, what is unusual is the kind of public intervention made by Union Minister Smriti Irani in her widely reported speech in Mumbai. Quite apart from the crudity of the statement, which is objectionable enough, Ms. Irani advised women to accept that menstrual blood is impure and that a menstruating woman desecrates a place of worship.

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