June 2017

Remove the cultural baggage, awkwardness about menstruation

Removing GST from sanitary napkins and menstrual hygiene products is only one of many issues we need to address when talking about menstruation Recyclable sanitary napkins being made at a processing unit at Goonj,Delhi. Most sanitary napkins available in the market are non-biodegradable and are difficult to dispose(Saumya Khandelwal/HT) Hay, dried leaves, straw. Nature’s bounty? […]

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Remove the cultural baggage, awkwardness about menstruation

Removing GST from sanitary napkins and menstrual hygiene products is only one of many issues we need to address when talking about menstruation. Hay, dried leaves, straw. Nature’s bounty? Hardly. These are just some of the innovative blotters used by many Indian girls and women who menstruate. That word itself; so troublesome, so awkward. Perhaps

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In an age of beef killings and human shields, speaking up is an act of courage

Speaking up has consequences and, so, in the din of divisive discourse that makes way for majoritarian force, the solitary voice is now hard to hear. I don’t know if you ever read Roger Rosenblatt’s essay in Time magazine in the early eighties: the air-crash over Washington, the rescue helicopter picking up survivors and, in

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