India, April 2 -- Somewhere in the grand script of human relationships, an entire chapter has been written in whispers, behind closed doors, between women who nod in knowing silence. It is a chapter that speaks of hot flashes and mood swings, of fatigue that seeps into the bones and emotions that rise like tidal waves.
This chapter is titled 'Menopause' - and, quite conspicuously, it has very few male readers. Menopause is still a largely private, female conversation. Men are so often kept outside its boundaries, or worse, they willingly exclude themselves from it. Pray tell us, why. The answer, like many things woven into cultural conditioning, lies in a mix of ignorance, discomfort, and a longstanding belief that women's bodily changes a...