Recently, Congress MP Dr. Shashi Tharoor introduced a private bill titled Women’s Sexual, Reproductive and Menstrual Rights Bill 2018, in the Lok Sabha. The Bill aims to make marital rape a crime, by deleting the Exception 2 to Section 375,…
Tag: menstruation
Pads are the most commonly used menstruation product and probably the only one most women have used. Pads are mostly plastic based, hazardous to environment and difficulties arise in its disposal. Using them causes general uncomfortability, restrictions in movement and…
We all know how periods embark the change towards womanhood for a girl. We also know how it is one of the most important moment of a girl’s life, not to forget that if she doesn’t know what it is…
Menstruation is a biological phenomenon which occurs to females. Sadly, it is surrounded with various taboos and myths which push women out of the socio-cultural life. These taboos affect women’s emotional and mental state, lifestyle and health. They exist because of…
Here’s a sanitary pad advert with actual blood! Buh-bye fake blue blood! Buh-bye vague allusions! It’s taken a while, but dear women, this is the germ-free pad advertisement of your dreams: so acutely crushed in your subconscious by the aggravatingly civil blue-stained…
It’s the 21st Century and yet what India couldn’t do in this modern age, the world outside had done it ages ago. Remember the time of Gandhi and Nehru when the only strength women received was the right to vote? At the…
There are few things that we don’t understand and this is one of them. Okay, you got to answer this, ‘Who in this world gets offended by seeing blood’? I don’t understand, if the blood is a result of men’s fights,…
And we all know how shameful is periods in our society! A girl on period = impure. That’s what our society believes in! Anyway, good news: Awadh Girls’ Degree College (AGDC) in Lucknow has become the first in the state…
From the beginning, Sabarimala temple is one of the most respected temples of Kerala. It is known that in the historic times it was controlled by the Buddhist tribes. Later the Hindu influence turned them in their favour. It is…
You have your chums, you have a ‘stomach-ache’, and the most popular, ‘you are down’. You say everything when you are menstruating but you never say you are on your ‘Period’. Ain’t that true? But why do you have to…