Tag: #Period
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Talking about life after menopause
Photo: MONIKA DEUPALAAfter watching the Netflix drama Bombay Begums recently, I was encouraged to see that mainstream cinema has started giving…
Welcome to suburbia
Meet Jyoti, the leader of a group of children who live on the outskirts of Kathmandu
Pandemic deepens period poverty
Period stigma has long blighted the lives of young women and girls in Nepal, but the pandemic is making things worse. If action isn’t taken to…
“Menstruation is not private business, it is everyone’s business”
GRASSROOTS: Activist Radha Poudel has spent her career working for dignified menstruation. Menstruation in Nepal has become synonymous with…
Communicating to remove menstrual taboo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezfdhBKEtsEGrowing up in Chitwan, Radha Paudel’s father used to tell her stories of faraway Jumla: how it took…
Nepal’s superwomen beat superstition
DEFYING TRADITION: This cow shed in Kailali used for menstural banishment. It has now been turned into a store room for rice husk.Media reports…
That time of the month
Illustration: DIWAKAR CHETTRIThe practice of chhaupadi in which women in western Nepal are banished to cow sheds during their periods grabs a…
Bloody period
If you ask people what they know about menstruation in Nepal, the first answer will be the practice of chhaupadi, the menstruation exile. Most…