More Than Just Blood: What a Tamil Nadu School Incident Reveals About Menstrual Shame in India

A month ago, a deeply troubling incident from a private school near Kinathukadavu in Tamil Nadu’s Coimbatore district sparked a nationwide conversation—one we can no longer afford to avoid. An eighth-grade girl, experiencing her first menstrual cycle, was reportedly made to sit on the classroom doorstep and write a three-hour exam. She was not allowed […]