For indigenous people like Hindus, our rituals and our festivities had given us a chance to navigate the important communication of reproductive health with young girls, to introduce them to menstruation using not just their own biology which could be daunting and alienating, but a language that encapsulates the indigenous understanding of nature and culture to make them feel more secure, more stable during a critical transition. Something which is so deeply connected to so much of our future experiences as women, need not be introduced to us as an ailment, a disease or a condition. It should be a celebration, an initiation into a new phase of life, like our culture made space for. Raja Parba can give us that language