This Jharkhand Woman’s Engaging Comic Books Are Helping Lakhs of Girls Understand Periods Without Shame

For generations, menstruation in India has been wrapped in silence, stigma, and a maze of myths. From being told not to enter kitchens or temples to hiding sanitary products in black plastic bags, young girls often grow up associating their periods with shame rather than biology. Even today, conversations around menstruation are either avoided or cloaked in euphemisms, leaving millions of adolescents confused, misinformed, and unprepared. It is in this landscape of discomfort and misinformation that Menstrupedia emerged, not as a lecture but as a story. Aditi Gupta's journey from silence to...