India, May 29 -- Every year Menstrual Hygiene Day reminds us of the grim reality that we are yet to understand - women and their plight. A woman bleeds for 2,535 days in her life. Seven years - spent negotiating biology with silence. A process that shaped humanity itself is still shrouded in 5,000 euphemisms, tabooed into invisibility, and buried under the weight of shame.
We live in a country where billion-dollar boardrooms squirm at the word "period." Where temples bar women at their most divine. Whereas science textbooks chart the cosmos, but skip what happens inside half the classroom once a month. We've built bullet trains and digital wallets - but still fumble, whisper, and wince at menstrual truth. This is not irony. This is nationa...