Period Matters: Menstruation in South Asia By Farah Ahamed (Editor)

Period Matters: Menstruation in South Asia By Farah Ahamed (Editor)A pathbreaking anthology on the diverse experiences of menstruation in South Asia. Menstruation, despite being a healthy and fundamental bodily process, is a topic often buried in fear and shame, and its discussion is even taboo in many societies. But a worldwide effort to bring conversations about menstruation and menstrual health into the open is now firmly underway. Period Matters carries this important endeavour forward by bringing together a

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Besides discussing ways in which we may care for the environment

Discover how certain asanas can build bone strength or a healthy respiratory system

she begins to transform back into a woman

girls and goddesses who

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traversing back and forth between the cities of Calcutta

impressions past and present

Orwell’s essays challenge

adventurous and containing the pearls of forgotten ancient Indian myths and legends

Countdown is partly a result of these journeys and conversations with many hundreds of people of the subcontinent

And it's a true story