Pallavi Gaikwad - Naz Foundation ( Photo 4 of 4 )

Despite the freedom they enjoyed, the Gaikwad girls led a fairly conventional life. Talks of the menstrual cycle were strictly out of bounds. Sex was never a topic to be discussed and it is to some extent a taboo even today. Chhaya never utters the word and Pallavi's voice drops few decibels when she speaks of it.

So when the young and impressionable Pallavi joined one of her senior colleagues at a life skills session, her eyes almost popped out of her sockets when she heard phrases like periods or menstrual cycle for the first time.