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Thiruvananthapuram: Dancer and social activist Mallika Sarabhai said that people should introspect whether all that is passed on as tradition are right. Mallika Sarabhai distributed mementos and prizes for students at Natanagramam. It was very later that I realized that ‘Amma’ was an exception,” said Mallika Sarabhai about her mother Mrinalini Sarabhai.Sarabhai said that art had always been an incredible ‘language’ to reach out to people. “If menstruation is dirty, the whole human race is dirty,” commented Sarabhai while delivering a lecture demonstration at Guru Gopinath Natanagramam, Vattiyoorkavu.“I grew up seeing my mother using dance as a medium to address issues in society. “You have to continuously shine the diamond – ‘adavus’ and ‘jatis’,” Mallika told the dance students.Sarabhai said that women are like ministers who could deal with any emergency at any point of time..