Bloody chronicles- What you should know about periods
I remember the times from when I was a child and the extended family used to gather at the ancestral home for festivals like Diwali or Ganpati. Sometimes, an older cousin, an aunt, would be made to sit separately from the rest. She wouldn't be allowed remotely near the Gods, or places of worship. She would have food in a separate plate, wash her clothes separately. As an inquisitive child, I hadn't understood why, and kept asking the adults for answers. They had just brushed me off by saying 'She's touched a crow!' Now that, was even harder for me to fathom! Who was this pesky crow who managed to touch some woman time and again, and why didn't it ever touch me or my brother? Finally, my mother sat me down and explained about periods. I took a while to digest the information, but once I did, the irrationality of the whole ‘touch-me-not’ game infuriated me! Having been brought up by my mom, an extremely level- headed, open- minded iron lady, it defini...