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New Delhi: Masooma Ranalvi, activist who began a campaign to end female genital mutilation in India’s Dawoodi Bohra community, welcomed Union minister Maneka Gandhi’s reported remark that a law would be brought in to end the custom if it is not done voluntarily by its members. The women and child development minister on Sunday said that she wou...

For men, the circumcision is done for health and hygiene, while for women, it is meant to curb sexual desire and tame them.

New Delhi: Masooma Ranalvi, activist who began a campaign to end female genital mutilation in India’s Dawoodi Bohra community, welcomed Union minister Maneka Gandhi’s reported remark that a law would be brought in to end the custom if it is not done voluntarily by its members. The women and child development minister on Sunday said that she wou...

For men, the circumcision is done for health and hygiene, while for women, it is meant to curb sexual desire and tame them.