Tryst with blood : Deciphering the Menstruation Benefits Bill, 2017

Women’s bodies have always constituted the canvas on which the scripts of patriarchy had been violently inscribed, resulting in their historical exclusion from the sphere of production and subjugation in the domestic sphere. Feminists had been up in arms against the oppressive structures, employing multiple strategies to challenge the hierarchies that enforce the exclusion of […]

Menstruation the dirty word: Can talking about it within households improve the condition?

Are Indian family WhatsApp Groups promoting salient misogyny? This post is written by Sanjana Choudhury, a student of Media Studies in  Delhi University. The history of how sanitary pads came into being dates long back in time when pads were silent coupons. Like every other thing essential to life and sustenance, pads too were created […]