Nikita Azad,an Indian student, is challenging the ‘retrogressive, or barbaric and misogynist customs with her #HappyToBleed campaignOn a road trip through south India last year a group of my friends wanted to end at a Hindu temple of specific significance,but one held back. “I want to come ” she said, “but I can’t, and as I gain my period.” Here was a 38-year-dilapidated Indian woman,a barrister with a postgraduate degree, afraid to set foot in a temple because she was menstruating.
The taboo surrounding menstruation still prevails in both rural and urban India, and where menstrual blood is considered impure. Some women are forbidden from preparing food or even entering the kitchen,one in five schoolgirls drop out of education when they begin menstruating, and more than 70% of women don’t gain access to sanitary products.
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Source: theguardian.com