Monica Khanna
Dr. Monica Khanna completed her high school from International School Bangkok. After moving to India, she completed her B.A, M.A, M.Phil and Ph.D. in English Literature.
She is currently working as Head - Foreign Languages Department at Ratan Tata Maharashtra State Skills University, and is a Visiting Faculty in several colleges inMumbai. She has work experience of around thirty years in the field of academics as well as in journalism and business. She is a panel member and resource person for Eupheus Learning for conducting workshops for school teachers across India.
She has conducted Faculty Development Programmes, and has also been invited by several institutes to conduct sessions for their students on a variety of topics. She has presented and published research papers at the national and international level for various journals, conferences and seminars.
Her passion for books, love for kids, and the desire to revive and rekindle an interest in the dying art of reading amongst children have been instrumental in her decision to take up writing fiction. She has published seventeen books, including scholarly books on gender studies, text books of grammar and composition, books of short stories and picture books for children, as well as text books on French. Her poems have also been published in several anthologies.
Address: C 202, Palm Beach Residency
Palm Beach Road, Nerul Sector 4, Navi Mumbai
She is currently working as Head - Foreign Languages Department at Ratan Tata Maharashtra State Skills University, and is a Visiting Faculty in several colleges inMumbai. She has work experience of around thirty years in the field of academics as well as in journalism and business. She is a panel member and resource person for Eupheus Learning for conducting workshops for school teachers across India.
She has conducted Faculty Development Programmes, and has also been invited by several institutes to conduct sessions for their students on a variety of topics. She has presented and published research papers at the national and international level for various journals, conferences and seminars.
Her passion for books, love for kids, and the desire to revive and rekindle an interest in the dying art of reading amongst children have been instrumental in her decision to take up writing fiction. She has published seventeen books, including scholarly books on gender studies, text books of grammar and composition, books of short stories and picture books for children, as well as text books on French. Her poems have also been published in several anthologies.
Address: C 202, Palm Beach Residency
Palm Beach Road, Nerul Sector 4, Navi Mumbai
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Menstruation, which is a natural function of a woman’s body, just like respiration, digestion or excretion, has been subject to differential treatment. Associated with being impure or inauspicious, it has led to various taboos that have been imposed on women over the years, ranging from social isolation to prohibition from entering certain places and touching objects or people, to being treated as outcastes and untouchables. Despite being an integral part of a woman’s life, the topic has not been widely depicted in literature or cinema. This paper explores the representation of menstruation in three selected literary texts from different genres and periods, namely Kamala Das’s autobiography My Story, Shashi Deshpande’s novel The Dark Holds No Terrors and one story from Shahina K Rafiq’s collection of short stories The Menstrual Coupé. The paper further examines R. Balki’s film Padman, which revolves around the theme of menstruation. Through a critical analysis of these four texts, the paper emphasizes the need to discuss an issue that has been neglected, ignored and disregarded, yet is responsible for the unjust ill-treatment meted out to women over centuries.