A boon for poor girls and women

Poverty has a greater effect on women than it does on men. That’s because women’s needs are more complex and they are usually treated as second-class citizens in most poor societies. Basic things that rich and middle-class women take for granted usually remain a distant dream for poor women and girls. Feminine hygiene products fall in this category.

In most Third World societies, women suffer greatly during their menstrual periods. In addition to the physiological issues they face, they also have to face the psychological problem of being treated as untouchables due to the social and cultural backwardness of their societies. As if this were not enough, lack of education about one’s own physiology adversely affects their health by limiting their access to feminine hygiene products. Affordablility of hygiene products is another serious issue. While only rich and middle-class women can afford the exorbitantly priced products marketed by the large companies, poor women are forced to use uncomfortable and unhygienic substitutes like cloth, and this impacts their health, well-being and self-confidence negatively.

An invention that would help school girls in many developing countries to keep attending classes:
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In a country like India, the lack of affordable hygiene products seriously affects the ability of millions of poor girls (in rural areas and deprived neighbourhoods of large cities) to attend school. Many of them shy away from attending school during their periods since sanitary napkins remain unaffordable and unaccessible to millions of poor girls and women.

A revolutionary invention that democratises sanitary napkins and makes them affordable and accessible to millions of women has been developed by Mr. Arunachalam Muruganandan from Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu. Muruganandam was forced by the economic circumstances of his family to drop out of school after Class X and work in a factory that produced machines used in the production of textiles. Utilising his ideas and experience, he developed a low cost sanitary napkin manufacturing machine that costs less than one-tenth that of the large automatic machines used to produce sanitary napkins. He set up his own firm to manufacture and market these semi-automatic machines to women’s rural Self Help Groups (SHGs) across the country. He was also ecouraged in his efforts by the government of Tamil Nadu, which set up vending machines for these sanitary napkins along with low-cost incinerators in state-run schools in several villages. The sanitary napkins are made available at a very low cost (2 INR/piece) by the SHGs which produce them using the mini napkin making machine. And now, a professor from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has decided to purchase Muruganandam’s machines and supply them to groups in several African countries, thereby enabling millions of poor girls and women in another continent to benefit from his low cost invention.

Read more about Muruganandam’s efforts in this great post by Malarthamil on www.kalugu.com Thank you, Malar!

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To know more about this machine and how it has helped girls and women across India and generated employment for women’s SHGs, click here.

An apology…

After two angry posts where some really harsh words were used at the criminal genocidal maniacs and their vile backers, I’ve decided that it’s time for an apology. Yes, after reading some of my own words again, I do owe an apology to some. I’ve compared the mass murderers in the Rajapaksa regime in SL and their backers in world governments as well as the ones in their pay to sewer rats, vicious vermin, rabid canines and filthy swine.

I certainly owe an apology to all the canines, vermin and swine of planet Earth! In my anger, I committed the mistake of comparing these wonderful creatures of Mother Nature to the lowly sub-human, sub-animal filth beings in the rogue SinHELLa establishment, their backers in the Indian establishment as well as the crooked Commie criminals of the Chinese regime and the bloated, bureaucratic filth that populate the United Nations. By using the words canines, vermin and swine as insults, I’ve inadvertently done a grave injustice to all the dogs, wolves, hyenas, rats and pigs on the blue planet. I should not have compared these noble four-legged creatures with the filthy two-legged ones mentioned above.

Pigs and rats have many noble qualities that certain clothed-apes-with-opposable-thumbs lack:
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I also should not have used the word “bitch” as an insult. Though I love cats, I like dogs very much as well. Moreover, once, when as a kid, I was playing alone in the garden, the female pet dog we had at the time courageously fought off a snake that could have harmed me. I don’t know if it was a poisonous snake but it was certainly a nasty looking slithering creature whose presence I was not aware of. I cannot forget the noble qualities of that female dog. It’s not without reason that a dog is considered as man’s best friend.

I love animals and for the ones that I don’t love, like cockroaches, I respect them for what they are. I’ve heard that cockroaches can survive the radiation from a nuclear attack. Maybe they are the only living creatures left unharmed as the rogue SinHELLa forces use chemical weapons on women and children with the full knowledge (and most disgustingly, full support, lip-service notwithstanding) of world governments and the United Nations. The only creatures that I really hate are mosquitoes. Those buzzing bloodsuckers don’t just suck the blood of humans and animals but are a real nuisance as well. But I don’t think even they have the capacity to guzzle human blood like the barbaric, cold-blooded murderers in the SinHELLa state.

No matter how “advanced” or “evolved” apes-with-opposable-thumbs may consider themselves compared to other animals, the scientific fact is that animals are just as “human” as any two-legged ape that wears clothes. If you’ve had a pet at any point of time, you would understand what I mean. Animals have the same emotions as humans do. Just because they cannot communicate their emotions clearly to us, it does not mean that they do not possess them. And I don’t just mean cats or dogs or other pets. It true of even lower mammals.

Consider this: There are many examples of apparent emotional behaviour in other animals. Elephants caring for a crippled herd member seem to show empathy. A funeral ritual performed by magpies suggests grief. Divers who freed a humpback whale caught in a crab line describe its reaction as one of gratitude. Then there’s the excited dance chimps perform when faced with a waterfall – it looks distinctly awe-inspired. These days, few doubt that animals have emotions, but whether they feel these consciously, as we do, is open to debate. Read the full article here.

And if you thought morals and ethics were a “human” trait, think again. Consider this: A classic study in 1964 found that hungry rhesus monkeys would not take food they had been offered if doing so meant that another monkey received an electric shock. The same is true of rats. Does this indicate morality? For decades, we have preferred to find alternative explanations, but recently ethologist Marc Bekoff from the University of Colorado at Boulder has championed the view that humans are not the only moral species. He argues that morality is common in social mammals, and that during play they learn the rights and wrongs of social interaction, the “moral norms that can then be extended to other situations such as sharing food, defending resources, grooming and giving care”.

“Work published this year showed that animals are able to make social evaluations and these assessments are foundational for moral behaviour in animals other than humans. Francys Subiaul of the George Washington University and his colleagues showed that captive chimpanzees are able to make judgments about the reputation of unfamiliar humans by observing their behaviour – whether they were generous or stingy in giving food to other humans. The ability to make character judgments is just what we would expect to find in a species in which fairness and cooperation are important in interactions among group members. Read the full article here.

As I mentioned, it’s not just about higher mammals. Even rats have a sense of empathy. Consider this: Mice appear to empathize with pain in other critters they’re familiar with, a capacity previously thought to exist only in higher primates.

When mice saw others they knew showing pain, they responded with signs of empathy, such as staying close by, according to a new study.

The mice seem hardwired to form a lower type of empathy called “emotional contagion,” said Jeffrey Mogil, a McGill University geneticist, who led the study appearing in an issue of the journal Science.

The mice were given mild noxious stimuli that caused a stomach ache-like pain. Aside from the pain response itself, the researchers also studied how the mice interacted when they could see a cagemate in pain. The behaviour included whether they spent more time together or followed each other.

So, even vermin like mice have a sense of empathy and understanding of the suffering of their fellow creatures! So what prevents creatures from Ban Ki-Moon and the other bureaucratic filth that populate the United Nations from exhibiting the noble qualities of rats? How can they not just turn a blind eye, but actually increase the enormous man-made suffering of civilians in the genocide zone of SinHELLa Lanka, though they are fully aware of it? Is it because of this:

Posters put up by the rogue SinHELLa government declaring Hillary Clinton, Eric Solheim and David Milliband as “wanted terrorists” because they paid some lip-service about civilians trapped in the conflict:
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It cannot be because of that. SinHELLa Lanka is a tiny bankrupt rogue state that goes with a begging bowl around the world. It does not even have one-hundredth of the power of the Zionist state of Israel. Yet Israel is condemned by the UN for killing around one thousand civilians in a program of state terror on Gaza that ended in one week. SinHELLa Lanka, in contrast, has butchered (and continues to butcher) tens of journalists apart from 10,000 civilians in the last three months alone and has maimed more than twice that number, detained more than ten times that number in Nazi-style concentration camps and is deliberately starving fifteen times that number! Yet, for the filthy scum beings in the UN, the issue is too “sensitive” to even merit a discussion in the Security Council. Sub-rattus sewer creatures! The real reason as I’ve mentioned in earlier posts, is that every one of these creatures is directly or indirectly involved in this heinous genocide without witness.

So I did a grave injustice to rats and swine by comparing them to filthy scum creatures like the Rajapaksas and their backers – lowly beings like Chin Jin and Chin Jia (CCP dictatorial gang of Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao) from the organ harvesting, toxic baby-food producing Middle Kingdom with the long, crumbling mud Wall in its middle and Manmohan Singh, Pranab Mukherjee, P.Chidambaram, M.K.Narayanan, Shivshankar Menon, Subramaniam Swamy, N.Ram, Alok Prasad, M.Karunanidhi, Ban Ki-Moon, Vijay Nambiar and John Holmes. These creatures and others involved in the worst genocide of the 21st century shall have to pay for their crimes against humanity some day or the other. There shall be no escape for these shameless Pithecanthropuses!

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Inhuman war crimes: rogue army shells makeshift hospital; 64 patients killed!

While the filthy bureaucratic vermin at the United Nations try desperately to cover up a genocide taking place with their full knowledge because of the involvement of several world powers in this genocide by a rogue regime that has killed nearly 8,000 civilians in the last four months alone, more and more unspeakable war crimes are coming to the attention of civilised human beings. In a genocide without witness, where all media, international aid workers and even UN staff are banned from the genocide zone to cover up the worst war crimes of the 21st century, where courageous journalists are butchered by government death squads, heinous war crimes are taking place with every passing moment.

In the latest horrific war crime, a makeshift hospital was shelled by heavy weaponry, killing a doctor, two nurses and 61 patients. This had taken place despite the exact co-ordinates of the hospital being passed to the rogue forces by the ICRC.

Patients waiting to be treated in a makeshift hospital that was deliberately denied medicines and supplies by the rogue SinHELLa regime were butchered in a deliberate artillery attack on two successive days:

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The international “mainstream media” which deliberately colluded in the genocide by failing to report civilian casualties, is beginning to be troubled by its conscience. After all, not everyone is a filthy sub-human, sub-animal scum creature who takes great pleasure in watching fellow humans suffer or try to to dismiss heinous crimes that they passively support as “the internal affair” of another country. Internal affair, my foot! The filthy swine at the United Nations have an obligation to ensure that governments have a responsibility to protect (R2P) civilians in a conflict, failing which the United Nations has to do the same. In a genocide being perpetrated by a rogue state, the UN fails to step in because criminal scum in the Chinese and Russian regimes (with the latter ever eager to lick the filthy asses of the swine in the Indian establishment) are actively backing the genocide and the other three of the P5 rogues (USA, UK and France) are passively backing it despite being humiliated by the rabid dogs of the Sinhala regime (Sweden’s humanitarian envoy was flatly refused a visa by this bankrupt country that is totally dependent on foreign aid). News reports about unspeakable war crimes are beginning to get published despite the scavenging editors in news establishments trying to black out reports of war crimes. Read reports here, here, here, here and here.

There are other types of news establishments – the ones that indulge in sewer journalism. The top example of this kind is the toilet paper The Hindu that is paid to publish vile, nauseating lies by its masters in both the rogue SinHELLa regime and the scoundrels in the notorious CCP regime of China. Do you want to know how a sewer journalist looks like? Here is the best example of such a lowlife scum creature:

The creature in the centre (the one in front of the microphones) is the world’s lowliest sewer journalist, the natural result of a passionate one-night stand between a filthy swine and a rabid bitch. This vicious creature is N.Ram, the liar-in-chief of the world’s most disgusting toilet paper called The Hindu:

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(To be continued)

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