Parwati Bogati, a 21-year-old woman from Western Doti District in Nepal, died last week after she was forced to stay in a menstrual hut during her periods. Although the banishment to menstrual huts was banned in 2005, the tradition is still carried on in backward areas. The menstruation hut is windowless, with a very small […]
For most modern urban dwellers the idea that period huts still exist in our country may sound outlandish. But we are a society which is yet to get rid of our baggage of menstruation taboos. So it doesn’t come across as a surprise that residents of Ghurchum village in Uttarakhand allegedly built a period hut to […]
The Fire Burns Blue: A History of Women’s Cricket in India is the story of extraordinary women playing the ‘gentleman’s game’. The following excerpt talks about how Mamatha Maben (Team India – Women’s Cricket; also the oldest-ever woman cricketer to take a maiden five wicket haul in an ODI at the age of 33 years and 162 […]
An 18-year-old law student from Kerala was cyberbullied for posting a poem on menstrual taboos. Navami Ramachandran has been in the news for being bullied by people online for her dig on the taboo of restricting menstruating women into a temple. The Press Trust of India reported that Navami has filed a complaint alleging the […]
