Twinkle Khanna doesn’t support the Idea of menstrual leave

TIL Desk Bollywood/ Actress-producer Twinkle Khanna says women should not use menstruation as an excuse to go on a leave. “I was a part of a show where in a lady said she runs more when she is on her period, so that no one can tell her to sit at home because she is weak,” Twinkle said, adding, “A lot of people think women should stay at women, so why give them an excuse to stop women from doing anything.

 If there is too much pain, then one can take an off just like they do for any other sickness like a stomach ache. Women should not make period a reason to take a leave.” Twinkle was in Delhi on Monday to promote her debut film production Pad Man — a biopic on Arunachalam Muruganantham, the inventor of a low-cost sanitary pad making machine in India.

 The film is based on a short story from Twinkle’s book, The Legend Of Lakshmi Prasad, which was inspired from the life of Muruganantham, a Tamil Nadu-based social activist who revolutionized the concept of menstrual hygiene in rural India by creating a low-cost sanitary napkins machine.