Q. How did you get to know about periods in the first place?
A. Getting to know about periods was a gloomy thing for me. I was born with two younger sisters. We had an attached toilet with no roof at the back of our home. I had no idea what my younger sisters did at the back when they dried the cloth pieces. It was only when I got married and at the age of 26 that I got to know why my wife had a nasty cloth in her hand. Many Indian men go from being fathers to grandfathers and great grandfathers, and still don’t know what their partners go through. In my village, there is a temple where I would go. When I used to see three women approaching and two staying out, I thought they had their periods on Mondays. It was only later that I got to know that they are monthly.

A Muruganantam is a school dropout from Tamil Nadu who resolved to make low cost sanitary napkins