"Hey, catch this ball", I said to him... I need to check on my friends... I ran to a group of tensed teenagers, who were supposed to be in action during the weekly games period...
"Kya hua?" I asked ..
"Arey Payal ko dates aa gaye!" One them said... And I had no idea what they were talking about. After a lot of questions and discussions I understood one thing that it's some blood flowing out of your body... And it's not normal... That indeed was a curious day for me..
Many young teenage girls share such kind of stories especially in India, as they aren't aware of their own body and I think it would be more appropriate to say that they aren't made aware of... Then there's this other day at school we girls are taken separately to be given classes about the great change in their life... The physical change of a girl to a woman..
According to Google, menstruation is "the REGULAR discharge of blood and mucosal tissue from the inner lining of the mucus through vagina."
Again I strongly emphasise on the word "REGULAR"... Can we Indians really accept this word for the process called menstruation?? Can we accept the fact that we still make our girl child live in the world of stigma and shame because of the most important change in her life? Can we accept the fact that we traumatize the Laxmis and Durgas who bleed so that in future they bear the fruit of next generation?? Can we accept the fact that we don't take them to temples and keep them away from all the basic rights without knowing the scientific facts behind it?? Can we accept the fact that we are ignorant and hypocritical human beings? No! We don't! Instead we make everyone feel that a girl menstruating is the weirdest thing to happen and are even very uncomfortable and ashamed to talk about it. We are given certain illogical explanations to cover it up..
"Human beings fear things, which they don't understand" And this fear leads to create the stereotypes and stigma among everyone in the society... The day people stop being ignorant and start to accept changes; the real and true changes, that day the mankind would be saved... Because change is the rule of the universe....
