Every now and then a man in robes utters something nonsensical about women's roles and bodies. In a college in Bhuj, 60 young women were asked to remove their panties to prove that they were not menstruating. Subsequently it emerged that a Swaminarayan guru, followed by the college board, had said women who cook while menstruating will be reborn as 'kutri' or bitches.

How should we deal with these recurrent stinky blasts of outlandish sexist theories?