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The article attempts to explore the specific performative and digital practice of users sharing digital self-images and videos on social media platforms in which they cry, with or without a 'tear filter'. In this article, the author employs Netnography (Kozinets, 2010) to look at social media accounts and online archives to track the origins of the trend of 'crying videos on TikTok' and through comments, reactions, and user interactions, attempts to understand how grief is performed on Instagram and TikTok. The article offers a diversion from the ossification of the current scholarship on self-images and identity construction on social media by looking at the marketability and entanglements in ecologies of commerce and sociality that the crying videos lead to. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Discusses the socio-economic context of women's sports culture in Bengal, India. Participation of women in kabadi, the national game of India; Physiological-nutritional aspects of the players' performance; Prevalence of iron deficiency among Indian women and its implication for sports performance; Need for the government to guarantee the basic needs of the girl child.