In India, anything related to menstruation is treated like a state secret, whispered about behind closed doors and wrapped in brown paper. As a result young girls across the nation grow up ignorant about this all too natural process and the knowledge that they do gain is archaic and in no way up to the international hygiene standards that a lot of us take for granted. In fact, a 2008 UN study showed that a mere six per cent of our population uses sanitary napkins as opposed to 96 per cent in Europe.

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