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In rural Tamil Nadu’s Naicker Theru of Ariyagoundampatti village, a 13-year-old girl, experiencing her first day of menstruation, sat on the steps of a designated ‘rest house’ – a place meant for isolating menstruating girls and women. The ‘rest house’ had a dusty, cobweb-ridden room, a dilapidated bathroom and a…

Kadu Golla community in Mallenahalli, Tumakuru, faces age-old practice of sutaka, where postpartum and menstruating women are kept in makeshift structures. This practice has been carried on for centuries, but is now being challenged by educated women in the community.

The 24-year-old tribal woman Minnu Mani belonging to the Kurichya community in Mananthavady here recently received her maiden call-up to the Indian women’s cricket team led by Harmanpreet Kaur for the Bangladesh tour.

Almost every “to-let” board in Bengaluru in front of houses comes with conditions in brackets: vegetarians only, families only, no bachelors allowed, for boys only, not for IT professionals and so on. With these conditions, many Bengalureans and migrants from across the country are finding it hard to rent a…