It all has been started when she entered the University campus and found some students are laughing at her and looking her back. she understood the fact, stain on her white top. She rushed to the lavatory. yes, it has started but her menstruation date is 5 days after and she is not carrying any sanitary napkin with her.
She studies one of the prestigious institutes of India and there is a vending machine out of her lavatory, so no tension. she rushed to the vending machine. There are only 15 minutes remaining to start her class. She has to finish it quickly. She rushed towards the sanitary napkin vending machine but no pads came out. she again tried but nothing came out. one the top of it she cut her finger while trying the machine. so she is bleeding.
Yes, she is bleeding, her heart is bleeding, her soul is bleeding and her vagina is bleeding. Rimjhim Sinha the 2nd year sociology honours student of Presidency University, Calcutta. Rimjhim lowering her head run to a dispensary to buy a sanitary napkin.
The day which changed Rimjhim she loudly said:” give me a sanitary napkin”. she shouted the shopkeeper hurridly rapped the napkin in a black plastic. something unusual running through her mind, while she was taking the pack she wanted to remove the black plastic. But nope she stopped herself, she knitted a bigger method of protest in her mind. With few of her friends, she wrote a slogan and protested within the campus area, and the protest is still going on.
The day changed Rmjhim from every aspect. now she doesn’t hesitate or be ashamed for her periods. now she fights for it. she fights for every woman she fighting for women rights. she and her friends demanded to withdraw GST or tax from the sanitary napkin. they, again and again, pushing their message to the government.
But nothing new in the protest, many women many college students fought, for this reason, we have seen ‘Bleed on skirt’ movement, ‘happy to bleed movement’, we know about Arunachalam Murugathan. Rimjhim is not an exception. what made her exception, actually her effort made her exception. She again rose the voice to break the stereotype, to break the stigma. She and her friend took out the protest from university arena to the villages of Bengal. they are collecting money to instal pad vending machines in the villages. they are campaigning on social media to remove GST and other taxes form sanitary napkin. Soumili Biswas, her friend took the effort to send a petition to Prime Minister in this regard.
so not only Rimjhim and her friends every citizen should echo themselves with this young students because every woman needs the tax-free sanitary napkin. In that way, A ‘beti’ can be educated and a ‘Beti’ can save.
