-Ria Nisar In wealthy and posh cities, residents can name several high-end material items as their most prized assets. Some might have a trendy fitted kitchen and others might have the latest innovation in technology as their new arm-candy. But, when the sun stops glistening off the chrome windows of their extravagant cars, at that moment the street lights are illuminated; that lamp serves as a source of light to many people living on the streets. These street dwellers can only call a half torn blanket, a rusty stove, old clothes stripped of their colour & print, their own. They live in a house of cards that can be blown away by the slightest breeze. 'Home is a notion that only nations of the homeless fully appreciate and only the uprooted comprehend.' – Wallace Stegner. Homelessness is an issue that plagues any country. But, in this cruel world, people are desensitised to the issue. By ignoring the reality of the homeless, people are refusing to acknowledge their existen
-Ria Nisar Periods. A phenomenon unique to girls is a monthly occurrence for them. The dictionary definition of menstruation is ‘’the process in a woman of discharging blood and other material from the lining of the uterus at intervals of about one lunar month from puberty until the menopause, except during pregnancy.’ ’ Common taboos will make you think that the blood expelled during menstruation is impure, dirty or bad blood. Thus, invoking the word 'periods' in a crowded place might lead to one getting shameful and reproachful looks as there is a negative connotation surrounding the word. But, in reality, it’s just like any other bodily fluid. Blood that is born without violence, blood linked to the creation of life. The stigmatization of periods can be traced ages back. The origin of this myth dates back to is often linked to Indra's slaying of Vritras. For, it has been declared in the Veda that guilt, of killing a brahmana-murder (Vritras), appears every month as me