This article caught my eye on BBC News online, and I thought it worth posting on Mumsnet as an addition to all the interesting articles on periods that have been on here recently. It's about women working together in practical ways, and how actions can change attitudes towards menstruation for the better.
Though it does make me despair that attitudes still have to be changed in the 21st century, but at least from the evidence in this item change is possible with lots of hard work from - again - women.
Sneh was 15 when she started menstruating. The first time she bled, she had no idea what was happening to her.
"I was very scared. I thought I was sick with something very serious and began crying," she told me when I visited her home in Kathikhera village not far from Delhi earlier this week.
"I didn't have the courage to tell my mother so I confided in my aunt. She said: 'You're a grown woman now, don't cry, it's normal.' It was her who told my mother."
Sneh, now 22, has travelled a long way from that point. She works in a small factory in her village that makes sanitary pads and is the protagonist of Period. End of Sentence., a documentary that has been nominated for an Oscar. She will be attending Sunday's ceremony in Los Angeles.
www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-47307335