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UNMENTIONABLES! SILENCE AND STIGMA, HYGIENE AND HEALTH

adminNovember 4, 2026November 4, 2026018 mins

The article examines the challenges of sanitation, menstrual hygiene and unequal access to clean toilets in India. Through personal accounts, community initiatives and policy developments, it highlights caste-based discrimination, poor sanitation infrastructure, menstrual stigma and the need for dignity, gender equality and sustainable sanitation systems. Modern civilisation has turned unproblematic natural phenomena into insurmountable problems….

What star power can, and cannot, do for WASH: AKSHAY KUMAR

Yatharth PathakOctober 31, 2026November 1, 202609 mins

AKSHAY KUMAR From a film about household toilets to beach bio-toilets and ministry campaigns, the actor’s decade on water, sanitation and hygiene shows both the reach and the limits of celebrity advocacy As of 17 September 2026, a government factsheet shows, rural India has built over 12.22 crore household toilets under the Swachh Bharat Mission-Grameen,…

Beyond the Showpiece: Can India’s Public Toilets Be Designed for Everyone?

Yatharth PathakOctober 12, 202606 mins

Cities are building toilets from scrap buses and recycled plastic. The harder test is whether dignity reaches the women, transgender persons and informal workers who depend on public sanitation most. A scrap bus at Bengaluru’s Majestic terminal now serves as a women-only toilet with Indian and Western commodes, a sanitary-napkin vending machine, a burner and…

How Four Teenagers from Hisar Are Changing the Conversation Around Menstrual Pain

adminMay 19, 2026May 19, 2026014 mins

Four Class 12 students from a government school in Hisar, Haryana — Pallavi Kaswan, Neha Loura, Pritam Suthar, and Anand Bansal — are challenging the silence around menstrual pain through a student-led innovation called Her Ease, a portable menstrual comfort kit designed for discreet pain relief in schools and public spaces. Every month, in classrooms…

ASHA workers distributing sanitary pads and teaching menstrual hygiene to adolescent girls in India

India’s Growing Menstrual Health Effort: Small Steps, Real Change

adminNovember 18, 2025November 24, 202507 mins

Menstrual health has traditionally remained a silent subject in India. Girls have, over the years, been taught to maintain their cycle in silence without much guidance, clean toilets, or affordable products to cope with them. But over the last few years, something gentle and hopeful has begun to shift. Through a spate of government programmes,…