Women’s health in Kashmir: a menstrual and reproductive health crisis

The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic has been multifaceted, and devastating in several ways. But the larger narrative often hides other crises not considered to be of primary concern, a fact that is made worse by gendered social and political attitudes. Tara Adiga examines the impact of the lockdown – following the revocation of Articles 370 and 35a – on the reproductive & menstrual health of women in Kashmir.