We Dalit Students Ate Biscuits And Uncooked Maggi For Lunch On Holidays
Sudarshan Kasbe (TISS Alumni), Bhavna Lakhan (APU Alumni) The eyes of humans are witness to many developments in the area of education such as increases in the educational institution, enrollment,...
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Menstruating is hard and even herculean for some. Periods are painful, uncomfortable, wet and make the life of the individual menstruating a slow-burning living hell. Selfcare and self-love are...
View ArticleEven In 2020, Why Are Indian Campuses Breeding Spaces For Inequality?
Equality, a core egalitarian idea compounded in the birth of the nation of free India and the founding principles on which our justice system is based upon; is devoid of its practical existence in...
View ArticleHow Civil Society Innovated Menstrual Health And Hygiene Interventions During...
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View ArticleDestigmatisation Of Menstruation Could Have Saved Jeesha And Others
“ At the age of 18, Jeeshabai got married with the expectation of having a happy family life with her husband. Owing to the malpractices and shyness of menstruation, her story didn’t turn out as she...
View Articleलॉकडाउन के दौरान महिलाओं में बढ़े अनियमित पीरियड्स के मामले
कोरोना वायरस को विश्व में दस्तक दिए करीब एक साल होने वाले हैं। इससे होने वाले प्रभाव से कहीं न कहीं हम सब प्रभावित हैं। इस बीमारी ने ऐसा विकराल रूप धारण किया कि पूरी दुनिया एकाएक ठप पड़ गयी। किसी को कुछ...
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पीरियड्स हर लड़की के जीवन में होने वाली एक प्राकृतिक प्रक्रिया है लेकिन इसकी शुरुआत होने पर लड़कियां जानकारी के आभाव में घबरा जाती हैं। हालांकि समय पर पीरियड्स का आना स्वास्थ्य के लिए अच्छी बात है।...
View ArticleHow Disaster Relief Operations Are Ignorant Towards Menstruators
Disaster recovery operations in India seldom consider the menstrual requirements of people. Often, the requirement of safe menstrual products and proper facilities to use them are ignored by the relief...
View ArticleBreaking Period Taboo Artistically, One Art Piece At A Time
Art that is related to taboo forces the audience to reconsider their assumptions related to it. Such art has the power to overturn what is taken for granted and make a positive impact. It is also true...
View ArticleAgeism In Menstrual Activism: There Are Not Enough Programmes For Older Women
By 2026, India is expected to have a population of 1.4 billion people, with a menopausal population of 103 million individuals; i.e. more than 7% of the expected aggregate. Yet, India fails to...
View Article4 Stories To Prove That Even Privileged People From SC/ST Communities Face...
I want to tell you all a few stories which are about my family members. I do not want to take names because naam mei kya rakha hai?! (what’s in a name?) STORY 1 – Waah Professor Ji, Waah! The first...
View ArticleWhat Made My Experience Of Studying In France Even More Fulfilling
As someone who was not certain about what to do after high school, I decided to explore several disciplines before narrowing down on one and did an undergraduate degree in Liberal Arts and Humanities....
View ArticleHere Are Some Revelatory “Did You Knows” About Menstrual Pain And PMS
Written by: Promila Ghosh What is Menstrual Pain? Menstrual pains are often described as ‘unwanted pain’ that begin with the onset of menstruation or continue during the usual heavy flow of period for...
View ArticleA Guide To Toxic Shock Syndrome For All Menstruators: Symptoms, Causes And...
Written by: Nirajana Sinha Toxic Shock Syndrome (TSS) is an extremely rare and serious medical condition that is caused by the bacterium Staphylococcus aureus. It occurs when this bacterium gets...
View ArticleIf You Think Only Women Have Periods, Think Again
Written by: Soumali Datta When it comes to menstruation, people, almost always, refer to the experience of cis-gender women i.e. those who are assigned female at birth (AFAB). But trans men,...
View ArticleIndia’s New Prohibition Of Manual Scavenging Bill Fails To Tackle Core...
Can you imagine what drowning must feel like? Water gushes in through your nose and mouth. Your body is moving vigorously as you try to catch a breath. Now imagine if this was not water but a thick...
View ArticleCaste Is Not A Matter Of Past, So Why Do Indian Schools Shy Away From...
If you ask a high school student in India about their idea of the caste system, you will probably get an answer on the lines of “That is a matter of history, no idea why people keep on talking about it...
View ArticleThe Slowly Disappearing Students Of Sundarbans
By Sovan Daniary/ PARI Shasti Bhuniya dropped out of school last year. She then boarded a train to Bengaluru, nearly 2,000 kilometres from Sitarampur, her village in the Sundarbans region. “ We are...
View Article‘I Will Become What I Want To Become’
By Jamuna Solanke/PARI On the day my SSC [secondary school certificate] results were to come, my condition was like that of a cricket ball after it is hit. You know how everyone watches just that ball?...
View ArticleYou Can Only Get 7/9 If You Know About The Reality Of Girls’ Education In India
COVID-19 induced school shutdowns have put the future of 20 million girls from across the globe at risk. Millions of them are here in India. Girls already struggle to get equal education. The pandemic...
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