For most fathers in India, it is not an easy conversation when their daughter wants to talk about periods.
However, Arun Gupta did not flinch or fumble; instead, he chose to listen to his sixteen-year-old daughter, Khyati, who asked what they could do in their own capacities to address period poverty—the lack of affordable sanitary products.
Khyati had noticed a blood stain on the dress of her household help’s young daughter, Deepa.
She asked the girl if she used a sanitary pad.
The girl did not know what it was.
