A society that prefers a male child has already condemned its women to an unequal world.

The other day, the internet, the font of most of the information I received, threw up an article on a woman who shared an image to Instagram of her face smeared with her own menstrual blood. Her stance, this was an effort to clear periods of the stigma that surrounds them, that makes them dirty […]

Today is Menstrual Hygiene Day. So let’s take this opportunity to do away with the stigma attached to this natural process. Young girls often grow up with limited knowledge of menstruation because their mothers and other women shy away from discussing the issue with them. Also read : Navami Ramachandran bullied for Posting a Poem on Menstruation […]

It is heartening to note the recent surge in the number of Bollywood movies that connect to the ground realities. Padman, directed by R. Balki, is the real life story of Arunachalam Muruganantham who resolved to make the world’s first low-cost sanitary pad making machine to help solve a major societal problem. Know why you must watch […]

Many Indian celebrities are posting their photos on Twitter, posing with a sanitary pad to break the taboo around menstrual hygiene. With the release of the film PadMan closing in, some are calling it a publicity gimmick. However, the intention here has been to start a conversation around the tabooed trifecta of women – menstruation […]

Kumar only learned recently that women in rural India go through life not only ashamed of their monthly cycles, but with no idea how to cope hygienically