Share ‘Madrasi’ in the Hindi Land! – My First Ever Hindi Menstrual Health Workshop March 1997 In the dusty summer holidays of my childhood in the Bengaluru of yore, my...Read More May 24 by Sharmada Shastry
Share How I Found My Lost Cervix And Why You Should Too! In the last fifteen days, I have touched the tip of my nose 736839 times. And...Read More Apr 6 by Sharmada Shastry
Share Is Patriarchy A Myth? Have We Been Fighting A Battle Against Something That Doesn’t Exist? I was born in the wee hours of a misty February morning in 1991. It was...Read More Mar 19 by Sharmada Shastry
Share Thanks, But No Thanks – The Tokenism Of Appointing A Woman As Head Of Shani Temple. Img Source:- www.sumeruparvat.com Picture this: It’s 8 AM on a dreadful Monday morning. You elbowed your...Read More Jan 20 by Sharmada Shastry
Share Why 2015 Was the Year When Periods Won Looking back on 2015, one realizes that several instances that made headlines were invariably related to...Read More Jan 7 by Sharmada Shastry
Share Of Art, Comics and Periods A cackle of school girls descended on my house this Tuesday afternoon. Clad in their chequered...Read More Dec 28 by Sharmada Shastry
Share Five Ways In Which #HappyToBleed Changed How We Look At Periods Sitting in a hospital waiting room, my mother broached the topic that had been scuttling in...Read More Dec 21 by Sharmada Shastry
Share When Men Are Going To Mars, Can Women Go To Temples? Just as I was about to leave home from work yesterday, a phone call from a...Read More Nov 25 by Sharmada Shastry
Share Misadventures With My Menstrual Cup One fine Monday evening, I came back from work, tra-la-la-ing about my latest acquisition. While friends...Read More Nov 3 by Sharmada Shastry