When Chetana Madavi, 29, gets her period, she gathers a few clothes and makes her way to a kurma ghar — or menstruation hut — a few blocks from her home in a tribal community in the western Indian ...

He starts building simple mud huts in the forest. Then it keeps getting better — structure, details, and somehow bright colors. Before it even makes sense, it looks like a full village. No plan, just ...

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There's long been opposition to the practice of forcing a woman on her period to menstrual exile in a hut, which can be unsafe and unsanitary. One... When Chetana Madavi, 29, gets her period, she ...