“If Today We Don’t Think And Act About Poor Menstrual Hygiene, It Will Become As Big As Polio And Then It Will Be Too Late”, Says Delhi’s Pad-Warrior
Meet 24-year-old, Anurag Chauhan, who had don the role of a PadMan to debunk the taboos associated with menstruation
New Delhi: “One day I read a report stating that over 1,50,000 women in India die every year, due to menstruation related problems. I was shocked to know the numbers. I imagined, if today, I shoot 20 women it would become world news, but currently, when lakhs of women are dying in India, no one actually cares”, says 24-year-old Anurag Chauhan, founder of WASH- Women, Sanitation, Hygiene project, while speaking to NDTV. Anurag, whose family has always been very open about such topics, was startled by the state of menstruation in India. It is then he decided to remove the word ‘taboo’ from menstruation.