menstruation

Indian Women Blog and Seema Pardeshi-Khandale also distributed Winter Care Packages and menstrual cups to the women.

They produce and distribute eco-friendly and affordable sanitary napkins

Teachers at the village schools would avoid them after knowing that they are going to talk about periods. Villagers opposed talks on breaking such taboos.

Conservative beliefs, weak finances, and inaccessibility of clean products are the trinity of menstrual nightmares. One which rural Indian women, more than their urban counterparts, consider a way of life sadly.

It's important to have the talk before your daughter starts menstruating, and equally important to have it along with your son.

"Do you know anything about how rural women manage when they are on their periods?"

“Think about how we feel when we sit down to eat our lunch or even cook a meal for our family. We use the same hands to segregate your waste and then to eat and cook. Would you be able to handle it?”

"I was shocked to hear some women say they use leaves, old ragged dupattas, and dirty discarded napkins even. This was not just an eye-opener for me - but was extremely disturbing.”

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.

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.