I spoke to three generations of women—my grandmother, mother, and me; to understand how menstruation and ideas around it have changed or not, across time. Hena Basu, dida, was born on 31 August 1935. She had nine siblings and her father was a doctor at the Cellular Jail in Malda. She is 85 now. Her marriage was arranged with my late grandfather when she was 18 and she went from Kolkata...
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