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Becoming a rage is small towns and cities across India, is a new surgical correction procedure called Hymenorrhaphy.

Hymenorrhaphy or hymen reconstruction surgery is the surgical restoration of the hymen. The term comes from the Greek words hymen meaning ‘membrane’, and raphe meaning ’suture’. It is also known as Hymenoplasty, although strictly this term would also include hymenotomy.

Such procedures are not generally regarded as part of mainstream gynecology, but are available from some plastic surgery centres, particularly in the USA, Japan and Western Europe, and now India, generally as ‘day surgery’. The normal aim is to cause bleeding during post-nuptual intercourse, which in some cultures, like India, is a required (well almost) proof of virginity.

In Ahmedabad, it takes just Rs.10000/- to restore the hymen and thus a woman’s virginity! (more…)

A 15 year old girl, studying in Class XI, went to the toilet. Plunk!! Now this looks gross? Read on!! When she was through, she realised, she had plunked a 3kg healthy baby boy in the toilet bowl!!! Now what is that!!? That is Gross.

Neither the girl nor her parents nor any of her pokey neighbours nor even her over-advising relatives could detect that the bulge was not because she was becoming plump but because there was a little human being developing inside her. (more…)

Today’s TOI discusses about a bunch of youngsters who were kept out of the formal schooling system by their parents and yet have reached a stage where they are now pursuing interests of their choice, having cleared the National Open School examinations. Are these people out of their minds? How can they do such a thing? How can they put their children’s future and education at stake?

Or are we the people out of our minds?

What is wrong with the schooling system that these people considered such a harsh decision in the first place? You just have to look at the load the little ones carry to school. You just have to look at the amount of time they have to spend doing their homeworks. (more…)