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Have you noticed that your mother does not go to worship at the temple on some days of the months. Your sister sometimes does not go to school or outside on certain days of the month. Girls in your class do not allow you to touch their bags. Why does this happen? If they ask them, they do not talk about it.

The “days” we are talking about are called “Periods” in English and “Mahavari” in Hindi. Talking about periods in our country is considered a dirty matter and it is considered a shameful subject to talk about. And this shame is not only among men but also among women with whom this process takes place. Women are also shy to say the term, “periods” the days in which this process goes on with them, in those days women say that their “those days” are going on. When women go to the shop to buy sanitary pads, they feel shy and then they wrap the packet of pad with newspapers then keep it in a black polythene so that the people standing nearby do not come to know that what “weapon” she is carrying with her. Women Keep the pad so hidden in their house so that their son or brother does not notice the pad. Why so much of shame?

What are these periods? Periods are normal vaginal bleeding. Every month, the women’s body prepares for pregnancy. If there is no pregnancy, the uterus, or womb, sheds its lining. This blood is the tissue from inside the uterus. It exits the body through the vagina. This entire 4-6 days process is called periods. Periods usually begin between 11 to 14 years of age and continue until menopause at the age of 48–51 years. They usually last 4-6 days. Women use sanitary pads for periods.

Periods is a very common process and it occurs in every woman. In order to end the taboo of periods in society, women have to first eliminate the shame of periods inside them.Periods are still considered a disease in India. People are shy of talking about periods, but now its high time to end this shame. We have to break our narrow-mindedness so that women do not feel shy to buy sanitary pads and carry it in black polythene and do not be ashamed of the people standing nearby.

Parents can play a prominent role in eliminating this hesitation of talking about periods. If they will inform their children about periods from childhood and teach them to talk openly about it, then the shame of talking about these periods would cease. And before the child gets this information in any wrong way, it is better that the parents tell their children about periods beforehand, but before explaining to their children, the parents themselves have to enlarge their thinking and talk openly about the periods.

Periods are not a “disease”. It is a common biological process. Talking about it is not a “dirty thing”.

Hopefully, from today you will be able to talk openly about periods, and not feel shy. Girls and women will not call periods as “those days” but as “periods”.

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