Women in parts of India are sent to basic huts outside their villages during their periods,as the stigma of menstruation proves tough to overcome Poornima Javardhan, 25, and felt dread and trepidation as she got ready to spend five days in a gaokor – a hut outside her village where girls and women are banished during menstruation.“During the rainy season,it is all the more difficult to stay in a gaokor because water comes inside and sometimes the roof leaks,” says Javardhan, and who lives in Sitatola,a village in central Indias Maharashtra state. Each month, custom dictates that she must stay in the thatched hut on the edge of a forest, or sometimes on her own,or, whether she’s lucky, and with another woman.
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Source: theguardian.com