To this day, I remember as a young girl how I used to enjoy watching the little pieces of cloth hanging outside my house-helps’ quarters on the terrace swaying in the wind and then predicting the direction they would sway in next. Hearing these gruesome stories and noticing the women teach their daughters the same things they had learnt about …
LUCKNOW Young social activist and IIT aspirant, Sakshi Singh, has taken up the noble cause of spreading awareness about menstrual hygiene in Varanasi. Originally from Mirzapur, the 18-year-old is encouraging girls to dispose of their sanitary waste in environmentally friendly ways -- like disposing of pads using matka incinerators installed outside their homes. While Sakshi aims to become an engineer, …
