Sanitation

While we certainly don’t wish to generalise these myths as a reflection of the beliefs of the greater majority, these 14 instances, prove why India needs to have the ‘period talk’ with young boys and men.

From hereon, girls from this UP village won't be married off to families that have not constructed a toilet at home.

While on their period, women don't get abnormal bouts of energy, and neither do they bleed blue. Here's how Indian ads misrepresent menstruation.

It has taken one courageous mayor, one driven municipal commissioner, a few dedicated men, remarkably little money and 18 months to transform the face of the city

Contrary to the shaming treatment that menstruation gets elsewhere in India, at the Kamakhya Temple, it is revered as the ability of a woman to conceive.

The automatic urinal, created for both men and women, saves a lot more water than conventional toilet systems in India and doesn't use power at all.

A lot of these posters have been put up by civil authorities in Rajasthan to spread an important message.

The Delhi Jal Board (DJB), Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) and concerned authorities were also directed to run a campaign to create awareness about the harmful effects of cleaning sewers on the health of the workers.

With more awareness about the environmental damage caused by sanitary waste rising among people, many women are switching back to a practice followed by our grandmothers or mothers in the olden days—homemade cloth pads.

This was the residents' way of appreciating the municipal sanitary workers for the amazing work they did for them.