Kathmandu, Feb. 20 -- A room full of women talking about their vaginas unabashedly sounds empowering. For the sole reason, that discussions around vaginas or female sexuality are hushed in daily conversations in our society. The topic is considered offensive to the public, a taboo that must never be talked about in open, or in confidence. And that is the very idea that The Vagina Monologues, the episodic play written by Eve Ensler, wants to dispel.

"In 2015, when I joined my first Vagina Monologues workshop, I was asked to make a drawing of my vagina. But I never had, with conscious intention, looked at my vagina," says Seitu Hada, one of the six performers of this year's play, organised by the TVM (The Vagina Monologues) Alumni. "The ta...