Till When Will Faulty Policies Keep Dalit-Adivasi Students From Quality...
With the ever-going tussle and the blame-shifting between the central and the state government, why is it that a young mind always struggles to achieve quality education? The All India Post Matric...
View ArticlePain and Cramps: The Unnecessary Evils Of Periods
Written by Manjima Tarafdar Periods are difficult, painful and uncomfortable to such an extent that on such days, even moving from the bed seems like a herculean task. The fact that menstruation does...
View ArticleMy Teacher Lectured Me Not To Make A Big Deal About My Period Cramps
By Nirajana Sinha Since a huge number of women start menstruating when they are in schools, the only logical thing to be done by the school authorities is to educate their students on menstruation,...
View ArticleNo Political Will, Piecemeal Efforts: Is This All We’ll Do To End Manual...
Last year, Bollywood threw one of its rare anti-caste films Article 15. In my personal view, the movie had more wrongs than rights but, there was one particular scene which really struck a wrong note...
View ArticleHow Do I Deal With My Periods During The Pandemic
In this article, we will discuss mental health during the pandemic, access to sanitary products and home remedies for cramps, and other period trauma. What if Sanitary Products become unavailable? With...
View ArticleMenstrual Interventions Vary Across Countries; Still A Long Way To Go
As India announced one of the harshest lockdowns in the world, among the many groups that remained invisible in the government policy announcements were menstruating persons. Hygiene essentials for...
View ArticleWhy Does The Indian Media Hesitate To Condemn Caste Violence?
The Indian media is going through a difficult phase today. It has been divided into two parts. One comprises of those who openly support the government and one which is against the government. A...
View ArticleIf Menstruation In Impure, Then How Can People Born Out Of It Ever Be Pure?
Menstruation: a physiological and biological issue of womxnhood. It is not just today’s time when we have been up with the idea of calling this extremely natural process ‘impure’, it has been a concept...
View Articleघुमंतू समुदाय की सोहिना जिसने लड़कियों को शिक्षा की मुख्यधारा से जोड़ा
पिछले महीने प्रधानमंत्री नरेंद्र मोदी ने अलीगढ़ मुस्लिम विश्वविद्यालय के शताब्दी समारोह को संबोधित किया। उनका कहना था कि पिछले कुछ वर्षों के दौरान देश में मुस्लिम बालिका शिक्षा की दर में अभूतपूर्व...
View Articleबालश्रम और सेक्स वर्क के पेशे में भेजी जा रही हैं राजस्थान के कई ज़िलों की...
संपूर्ण राजस्थान विविधताओं से भरा है। यह विभिन्न सांस्कृतिक परंपराओं, प्रचलनों, प्रथाओं और सामाजिक, भौगोलिक परिवेश को अपने अन्दर समाहित किए हुए हैं। यहां महिलाओं की आन-बान और शान का एक लंबा इतिहास रहा...
View Article“We Don’t Leave The Front Door Open Anymore”: Will the Vaccine Bring Back the...
We don’t leave the front door open anymore, for people, their stories and fragrances to waft in and out as they please. The shop round the corner where Appa bought idlis from, every Sunday morning, for...
View ArticleWhat Was The 12% GST On Period Products All About?
Written by Bipasha Mandal “ India is a land where contradictions will continue to abound“, says Rama Bijapurkar half sardonically, half despairingly in his book ‘We are Like that Only: Understanding...
View Article4 Period Rituals Around The World That Celebrate Menstruation
India is a post-colonial haystack of contending and contrasting discourses and the discourse of menstruation does fall under its influence. Here, period rituals are often associated with isolation,...
View ArticleWhy Am I Called “Undeserving” When Reservation Is A Constitutional Right?
“Oh! Your merit was not equal to mine, still, you got admission to such a prestigious college. Wow… reservation..huh“ This was the statement one of my classmate from class 12th made when I told her...
View ArticlePost-Matric Scholarships: Why Are SC, ST and OBC Girls Underrepresented In...
“Being in a girls college of a central university, in my undergrad class of 60 students, not more than 20 students are from marginalised communities.” A report of the All India Survey on Higher...
View ArticleThe Key To Achieving My Goal Of Studying In Europe Was One Basic Step We Take...
I chose Europe for my graduate studies because it is the epicentre of global policymaking. Apart from being a melting pot of cultures and traditions, Europe is an international hub for artistic and...
View ArticleExplained: Why Scholarships For Marginalised Students Are Important, Now More...
The holistic view of our real independence usually comes from how educated our population is and to know that our Right to Education policy was finalised in 2009 doesn’t give much of a hope. According...
View ArticleChapter Skipped: Back In School, We Thought That Girls Menstruate Due To...
I do not remember the class; it was probably Class 7 or 8. There was a girl in my class, she was topper and everyone’s student of choice be it for studies, speech, debate, dance, sports, anchoring or...
View ArticleWe Bleed Red, Not Blue! What Really Happens During Periods
If Shakespeare were a woman, one of his tragedies would have been about the menstrual cycle that we, women, need to face each month. It’s rather astonishing that very few female authors have ever...
View Article“Stop Disregarding Period Pain As ‘Normal’, It Is Not!”
I had normalized cramps for the longest time. My mother told me all about periods. However, having no experience of cramps, when I complained about my pain, she told me it will happen anyway and I...
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