{"id":1528,"date":"2026-05-26T14:03:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T14:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/?p=1528"},"modified":"2026-05-26T14:04:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T14:04:07","slug":"07-26-period-politics-gains-losses-and-celebrations-in-india-and-elsewhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/?p=1528","title":{"rendered":"#07-26 Period Politics-\u00a0Gains, losses and celebrations, in India and elsewhere"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In January 2026, India&#8217;s Supreme Court declared the right to menstrual health and hygiene to be fundamental, under Article 21 of India&#8217;s Constitution.&nbsp; But in March, it rejected a petition for a national menstrual leave policy. Their reasoning?&nbsp; &nbsp;&#8220;No one will hire women.&#8221; Some Indian companies and states have instituted menstrual leave over the years; but discussions online suggest taking the leave can be a liability. A lot of men can&#8217;t bear to have menstruation mentioned; so, many women prefer not calling attention to their condition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is, however, one state in India where menstruation is publicly celebrated, with a raucous annual holiday for women and girls, around the middle of June.&nbsp; Kalpana Pradhan covered both that and menstrual political activism for WINGS.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.radio4all.net\/files\/wingsradionews@gmail.com\/WINGS-07-26PeriodPolitics-28_53-128kbps.mp3\">https:\/\/www.radio4all.net\/files\/wingsradionews@gmail.com\/WINGS-07-26PeriodPolitics-28_53-128kbps.mp3<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In January 2026, India&#8217;s Supreme Court declared the right to menstrual health and hygiene to be fundamental, under Article 21<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1529,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[37,4,46,560,151,443,27,179,3,601,36,42,60,435,65,207],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-activism","category-all","category-canada","category-courts-2","category-governance-law","category-government","category-health","category-india","category-latest","category-menstruation","category-politics","category-regional","category-society-and-culture","category-spain","category-spirituality-and-religion","category-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1528"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1530,"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528\/revisions\/1530"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}