Happy end of a decade.
I couldn't stop complaining to my mother about how irritating are these sanitary napkins and how badly I wanted to switch to something sustainable. I didn't know where to look for and whom to ask as in the years 2011-12, it was not very common to have a smartphone connected to limitless internet. The very first women were my mother and grandmother whom I went for advice. My mother motivated me for adopting a sustainable option, but as cloth had several disadvantages she did not straight away and suggested I not go with them. However, my grandmother who was a working lady then shared her experiences of how her entire saree used to get drenched with menstrual blood when she traveled back home to the office in a cycle rickshaw. She exclaimed, "You girls are lucky that you have sanitary napkins"! I was a little demotivated to use the cotton cloth again after listening to the scary story of a blood-drenched saree, imagining my Wednesday's white school dress will actua...
