I wonder if I was rejecting my womanhood or the stereotypes attached to it? Is womanhood synonymous to silence or to being silenced forcefully?

68 girls in Bhuj were strip-searched because their principal suspected that some of them were lying about not being on periods.

A menstrual taboo is any social taboo concerned with menstruation. In some societies it involves menstruation being perceived as unclean or embarrassing. Many religions consider menstruation ritually unclean. Some of the menstrual taboos are menstruating women cannot enter the kitchen, enter the temple, attend/perform rituals, touch pickle, sleep inside the house and sleep with their partners. They are supposed to use […]

While there are many initiatives in India that are trying to dispel the taboo around menstruation, here’s one that is educating young women about their bodies through comics. Aditi Gupta and Tuhin Paul started Menstrupedia in 2013, and through their hard work and dedication – it is a full-fledged comic book making its rounds not […]

Okinoshima, a small remote Japanese island bans women from entering it. The island is considered a sacred ground and even men who enter have to go there naked, and cannot take anything out of the island, not even a leaf. The island is a part of Munakata city, Fukuoka. Just like menstruation is considered “impure” in India, and […]

Most of us dwelling in cities, oftentimes live in a bubble. Our world is small, and we like it that way. We hardly know how the ‘real’ India actually lives their lives. A lot of us want to go to villages and contribute to the education to underprivileged kids. We want to help out in […]