Where Does India Stand In Menstrual Hygiene Management?
Menstruation Hygiene Management (MGM) in India is not a private but rather a public policy issue. Given the fact that 23 million girls drop out of school every year, and most women cannot afford to...
View Article“I Use Torn And Thrown Away Bandages To Soak Period Blood”
A documentary titled, “Cycle Series’’ beautifully portrayed menstruation across different sections of women especially on the lived experiences of Allison Victory, who led a major chunk of her life as...
View ArticleThese Women With Body Dysmorphia Tell Us Why Language Around Periods Is...
Normalizing the language around menstruation will come only by accepting the fact of it being a natural process. This parlay can be achieved once we begin by conveying correct information on...
View ArticleRemember How Class 8th Textbooks Would Teach Reproduction?
From the first National Education Policy (NEP) drafted under Kothari Commission in 1968 to the third ambitious NEP passed by Shri Narendra Modi’s union government; after a long and tiring overhaul of...
View ArticleDid You Know, Just A Year’s Worth Of Sanitary Pads Does This To The Environment?
Sanitary pads have progressed from the raw stage of cotton layers which were bound together by a fibre sheet supported to a waterproof plastic layer at the bottom for abstaining from blood staining on...
View ArticleWe Couldn’t Get More Than 4/8 In This Quiz On Policies And Periods, Can You?
With the recent talk around period leaves in the media, we have started paying attention to policies that affect menstruation. It is not that we are starting from scratch in talking about the policies...
View ArticleMental Health And Freedom: The Cost Of Being A Young Girl In A COVID-Struck...
The French fashion designer, Coco Chanel rightly said, “ A girl should be two things: who and what she wants.” There is no doubt that no avenue is beyond the ability of women and girls. We’ve come...
View ArticleWhile Geeta Studies In Her Local Language, Her Privileged Peers Get To Taste...
“I want to go back to school.” “Bro, everything depends on implementation.” “Wow, so cool stuff.” If you are done with these twitter reviews of the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, let’s move...
View ArticleAdopting A Menstrual Approach In Educational Institutions
The Indian school system is a domain that critically needs to develop menstrual infrastructure. The adolescent menstruating population faces several issues, from the inaccessibility of menstrual...
View ArticleWhen Will The Pandemic End: Can We Trust Predictions?
It seems difficult to sit inside your house for three months straight. Right? Well, that’s the case with me. I know this has been hard on everybody. As a young, seventeen-year-old in high school, I’m...
View ArticleCentre Ends Scholarship Scheme, Leaving 60 Lakh SC School Students In The Lurch
After three years of dodging the post-matriculation scholarship that funds over 60 lakh Schedule Caste (SC) and 20 lakh tribal students of Class 11 and 12, the Centre has finally opted out of it in...
View ArticleA Day Spent In Sunkiya Village Talking About Menstruation And Environment
By Chandarprabha Sharma “Okay then, either we get thrown out of the village, or we earn a family for life. In either case, we will remember this for life”, I joked with my friend Vaishali Singh. In...
View ArticleHow Delay Of Post Matric Scholarships Is Costing SC/ST Students Their Livelihood
Try googling ‘Scholarship’ and the best and apt description you will get on it will be this: “a grant or payment made to support a student’s education, awarded on the basis of academic or another...
View ArticleWill Nitish Kumar Make A Comeback In The Grand Alliance?
Assessing and evaluating Nitish’s growing discontent and discomfiture is the latest news if we wanted to familiarize ourselves with the ground situation in Bihar. At first, his lieutenant Sushil Kumar...
View ArticleLet’s Bust The Misconceptions Around Period Leave, Shall We?
In August, Zomato announced a 10-day period leave policy for its menstruating employees. This move received loud appreciation but it also ignited a long-standing debate on menstruation, which reflected...
View ArticleWhy Is Women’s Entry Prohibited At Sacred Places During Periods?
Menstruation is a phenomenon through all girls experience around the age of 13 or after that. A lot of taboos are associated with the phenomena of Menstruation or periods. The most common taboo or a...
View Article“Don’t Eat Pickles” And More Ways In Which Women Still Propagate Period Shame
Now everywhere individuals, communities, different institutions, and organizations are talking to raise their voice on periods, but the question is -are women and girls ready to talk about it? Are they...
View ArticleNot Cloth But Cloth Pads Are A Safe And Better Option To Use During Your Periods
People have been using cloth during periods since ages because it’s affordable, easily available and easy to use. Cloths are reusable pieces of fabric worn externally on the body, inside the underwear...
View Article“Periods Are Power, So Are The Food Cravings”
What is shame? A painful feeling of humiliation or distress caused by the consciousness of wrong or foolish behaviour. A regrettable or unfortunate situation or action so says the Oxford Dictionary. A...
View ArticleWhen COVID Pushes People Into Poverty, Girls’ Education Suffers Collateral...
Magic Bus Survey on the impact of COVID-19 reveals 83% of adolescents reported having no access to online learning resources. The COVID-19 crisis has brought the entire world to a standstill as...
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