At the dead end of a street that sees no vehicle movement stands the modest house of A Muruganantham (51), an Arunthathiyar from Rajavur village in Tiruppur district of Tamil Nadu.This New Year's dawn, Muruganantham was treated to an awful .
Many women see sequestering inside a house as empowering and may ask what is wrong when women can rest while on their period. But this ‘rest’ is only for household chores, and not for agricultural work.