Are We Denying Menstruating Womxn Their Dignity, Human Rights And...
Savitri Singh (name changed) belongs to the Gond community from Madhya Pradesh. Gond is a tribal community and mainly resides in Central India. Savitri didi is in her late 20s. Once, during a...
View ArticleEntrance Exams Amid Covid-19: Couldn’t We Have Been Better Prepared?
Conflicting conditions arising due to Covid-19 continue to invite incessant discussion around the high-stakes entrance exams for admission in top institutions such as the Indian Institutes of...
View ArticleHousehold Chores, Marriage Instead Of Classrooms Awaits These Girls In Haryana
By SwaTaleem Team (Ananya Tiwari, Suganya Sankaran, Vaibhav Kumar, Arzoo Shakir) Earlier in 2020, when the pandemic hit India, the education system was trying to grapple with the uncertainties and...
View ArticleMyths About Menstrual Hygiene Are Making Sonagachi’s Sex Workers More Vulnerable
Mahina ka woh chaar din bohot kharab jataa hai, waise dhanda nahi ho raha fir woh chaar din ka loss. Acha nahi lagta mujhe; kamayenge nahi to khayenge kya” (Its horribly tough, those four days of the...
View ArticleThinking Of Switching To Cloth Pads? Here’s Literally Everything You Need To...
Lack of access to menstrual hygiene products is a problem that affects menstruators all around the world. With limited knowledge about and access to safe and sustainable menstruation products and...
View ArticleSanitary Napkins Come Under Single Use Plastics Too
Since 400 years, the practice of waste management has been prevalent in almost all of the cultures. There are so many households in developing countries which do not have access to municipal services...
View ArticlePeriods, Sex, Love Marriages: When Will Our Society Be Ready To Bust Taboos?
Teenagers and their curiosity about new discoveries are quite normal. I don’t know why exploring things is a taboo in our society. Why are these rules abided not because we want to but because we...
View ArticleWhat Your Period Tracking App Knows About You
It’s just easy to track your menstrual cycle with it, that’s why I use it.” “Who has time to track your menstrual cycle on your own, here you can just select some options and it does the job for you” “...
View Article“The Modi Govt Only Increased The Plight Of Farmers Through The Farm Bills”
When the system is unable to improve your situation, it starts to ruin you. The complexity of the system destroys everything. A Damru (small drum) has a big and important role in the political and...
View ArticleWe Gave Our College Final Exams Amid The Pandemic And Graduated, But What Now?
Sometimes, all we can do is ‘hope’, that things will turn out to be good and work in our favor. That’s what I thought when I gave my last exam for my final year. And that is how the class of 2020 comes...
View ArticleI for Intersex: Interview With Gangabhavani M. (Part 1)
On June 19, I attended a webinar ‘Intersex Voices’, organised by Intersex Human Rights India (IHRI), SAATHII, Solidarity Foundation, and Nirangal. I am grateful to Dr Shruthi Chakravarthi for letting...
View ArticleI for Intersex: Interview With Shakti Sri Maya (Part 2)
On Friday, June 19, I attended a webinar ‘Intersex Voices’ organised by IHRI, SAATHII, Solidarity Foundation and Nirangal. I am grateful to Dr Shruthi Chakravarthi for letting me know about it. I thank...
View Articleक्या है पीरियड्स हट, जहां माहवारी के दौरान महिलाओं को भेजा जाता है
होमो सेपियन्स एक वैज्ञानिक नाम है, जिसको हम आम बोलचाल की भाषा में मनुष्य कहते हैं। पृथ्वी पर सबसे समझदार होमो सेपियन्स यानि मनुष्य को ही माना जाता है। बात करने, अमूर्त सोच और समस्या के समाधान का हल...
View ArticleMy 2 Cents On Period Leave: Say ‘No’ To Policies, ‘Yes’ To Changes
Zomato recently announced that it would implement a new ‘period leave’ policy for its female and transgender employees, wherein they will be entitled to 10 days paid period leaves in a year. This...
View ArticleAre Period Tracking Apps Breaching Your Privacy?
One random evening while I was coming back from college, I looked at the pop-up notification on my phone that said, “Your periods may start in 5 days“. It was the Apple Health app reminding me of my...
View ArticleWhispered Secrets Taught Me Periods Are When You Bleed From Your Vagina
The stigma around menstruation doesn’t exist in isolation. It is nurtured in a patriarchal society, much like gender roles, toxic masculinity, and rape culture. In such a society, children grow up...
View ArticleThe Future Of Education In India Continues To Be Uncertain Despite The New...
Representational image. The new National Education Policy (NEP) that was approved recently has been applauded by many. It has taken half a decade for the Government to come up with the policy document....
View ArticleMany Languages, One Sentiment: The Inherent Shame In Language Surrounding...
Several years of studies, such as the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis, have confirmed the relationship between a culture and its languages. In order to understand a culture and its traditions, it is imperative...
View ArticleThe ‘Infodemic’ In This Pandemic: How Misinformation Worsened Covid-19
Among a plethora of social shortcomings exposed by the COVID-19 pandemic, that of misinformation and fake news was a rather grand one. While the phenomenon of misinformation is not new to Indian...
View ArticleNEP And The Importance Of Gender-Inclusive Learning: Too Little, Too Late?
By Urbi Chatterjee India is a land of paradoxes. It is a land of contradictions and inexplicable contortions. It is the land where women are worshipped as goddesses, and yet year after year, the number...
View Article