Irked by the video clip of a priest from the Swaminarayan Bhuj Mandir in Gujarat saying that if menstruating women do the cooking, they would be reborn as dogs, a Delhi based NGO is hosting a ‘Period Mahabhoj’ on Sunday, where the food served would have been cooked by menstruating women, informs Dr Surbhi Singh, a gynaecologist associated with the NGO ‘Sachhi Saheli’.

The statement, she points out, needed to be taken seriously because the priest belonged to a Trust which operates several schools and colleges including the college in Bhuj, where 60 of its girl students were forced to strip to prove that they were not having their period. Following a media and public furore, a FIR was lodged and the college principal, a peon and the college Rector were suspended.