Menarche: Entering the Strange Land of Adulthood
It was April and we were all getting ready for parents-teacher meeting in my daughter’s school, when I noticed her inner wear were smeared with red stains. She would turn…
Menstruation
Men and menstruation: A young anti-caste thinker fights menstrual stigma
A 2014 report by the NGO Dasra titled Spot On! found that nearly 23 million girls drop out of school every year as they have to face lack of proper…
Periods or Pills?
Three years ago, a tent had adorned my courtyard where a crowd had gathered. Someone was fighting off sleep, struggling to pay attention. Someone was wondering about the next cup…
Greening the Red: Towards sustainable menstruation in India
Gone are the days when menstruation, one of our country's major taboos, was spoken with a 'hush' or a 'shh' in our society. With films like ‘Padman’, ‘Phullu’, ‘Period. End…
Menstrual Hygiene – Talk about what’s not comfortable!
“When I first got my periods, I felt I was about to die. I didn’t know what it was,” Says Sonam, a resident of Nalhar village in Mewat district of…
Red-The Social Stigma
Radhika a chirpy teenager, enters puberty. As she was dealing with the physical changes she was hit by a tsunami of blood in her pants; life was never the same…
Period Leaves: Yay or Nay?
The concept of period leave, like the #Metoo movement is not new. What really happens is people talk about it and then forget it, as some other issue gathers momentum.…
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