UNMENTIONABLES! SILENCE AND STIGMA, HYGIENE AND HEALTH
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….