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ere’s introducing the inspiring story of one of TIME Magazine’s 100 Most Influential entrants Arunachalam Muruganantha m, a rural welder from India turned incredible innovator and inventor, who certainly wasn’t wearing a cape when he was moved to provide women with access to high-quality and affordable sanitary pads 20 years ago. His story has been fictionalised for its silver screen debut with PadMan, the world’s first feature film on menstrual hygiene releasing in cinemas around the world on 26th January 2018. Co-produced by Mrs Funnybones Movies, Hope Productions, KriArj Entertainment, and Sony Pictures Entertainment, India, PadMan is written and directed by ad-man turned film-man R Balki (Paa). It is billed as the most progressive family entertainer yet, starring international megastar Akshay Kumar who
assumes the titular role of Arunachalam enigma in his home town, Muruganantham to once Arunachalam again showcase Muruganantham’s super-heroic his commitment to social entertainers. efforts led He to a business that today employs is joined by critically acclaimed hundreds actresses of women across India. Sonam Kapoor (Neerja) and Radhika Apte Issues relating to menstrual (Kabali). hygiene are a global phenomenon. Whether PadMan traces Arunachalam this is a result of the stigma and taboo Muruganantham’s international resulting journey the marginalisation and disempowerme in from an outcast exiled from society for nt his endeavours to delve into of women in societies, the such a economic and subject, to becoming a super-hero taboo social impact of “period poverty”, of to India’s modern history, as the consequences on women’s he followed his health, dream to bring a revolution there is a need to educate to menstrual both men and hygiene in India. Akin to women on the impact and the tagline of to ensuring all the film Superhero Hai Yeh women have menstrual dignity. Pagla (He’s Committed a Crazy Superhero), PadMan to the cause of women empowerment is nothing , short of an impulsive, flamboyant Arunachalam Muruganantha and m faced the driven entrepreneur extraordinaire risk of isolation and marginalisatio , who refused to give up in the wake n as of scrutiny he challenged the stigma and stereotypes and ridicule, using his resilience and associated with menstrual initiative to invent India’s hygiene low cost sanitary head-on in order to improve napkin making machine. the lives of An extreme thousands of women.
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SOCIAL MEDIA GOES VIRAL ON FALSE ALLEGATIONS OF PLASTIC FOUND IN CHAPPATI FLOUR
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WE FIND THE TRUTH FOR YOU A video which is going viral on social media shows a lady washing East End Gold Chapati flour and claiming that there is plastic inside the dough. After washing out the flour and the dough, the lady in the video claims that plastic remains after washing out the flour. We wanted to get the facts on this so we contacted East End Foods & spoke with Jas Wouhra, Managing Director. Jas Wouhra said: “The flour contains Gluten and some people, a very few have put this video out on social media, when you put any flour not just Gold flour and when making the dough the flour under water, the flour will go away and doesn’t have the correct characteristic of sticking without gluten and that is protein and enzyme which is present in wheat naturally and there is nothing added or subtracted from wheat, you can
take away gluten but you cannot add gluten”. Jas Wouhra also added that they do not handle any Genetically Modified products and all the flour is grown in the UK and the wheat is imported from India. Another statement that is going around on Whatsapp is from two members of EastEnd Roger Whoura Director of East End said: “Whenever you wash the flour you will always remove the wheat element and be left with protein. Protein content of flour is between 8 and 15% so that will remain and is a rubbery texture at the end and is a natural protein and not harmful”. Rahul Chaudhari – Employee of East End Foods said: “The East End Gold flour we make here at our planting site in West Bromwich. We import wheat and check it for quality and
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PG 12 - 13 pesticide and once it is approved then it goes to the cleaning process and nothing is added in or taken out. All East End food are GM free”. There is also a statement on East Ends website: We mill Premium Gold chapatti flour at our own mill based in West Bromwich, UK. We source our wheat from our reputed suppliers. The wheat is cleaned in our state of the art flour mill. The cleaned wheat is ground in a specially designed stone grinding mill (Chakki). We are aware that there is a video circulating on social media about East End Premium Gold chapatti flour. The video is falsely claiming that plastic is mixed in the East End Premium Gold Chapatti flour. The video and its content are inaccurate and misleading. continued on page 2
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