India, June 22 -- In the rural India, where awareness often comes second to tradition, menstruation is still deep buried in silence. Even with the number of policies and awareness campaigns, large parts of rural India still approaches periods not as a normal biological process, but as a taboo; something to be spoken in whispers and suffered quietly. The implications of this mindset, are not just individual but far-reaching societal, affecting the education, health, dignity of females.

Menstruation in most villages is surrounded by myths and misleading information. menstruating women being isolated into specific places, among communities like the Gonds in the central India. In one recent case in Tamil Nadu, a girl was seated separately du...