The Infrastructure of Dignity | Megha Desai | TEDxIITGandhinagar

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Every month, millions of girls miss school because of something entirely predictable: their period. In this emotional talk, Megha Desai reveals how menstruation is not a personal inconvenience, but a systems design failure and how India’s Supreme Court may have just changed the global conversation on dignity, education, and equality forever. Megha Desai has significantly scaled the Desai Foundation to reach thousands of villages and millions of lives through dedicated initiatives in health and menstrual equity. Her collaboration with IIT Gandhinagar stands as a cornerstone of this mission, where she translated global community models into grassroots action by helping catalyze NYASA. By partnering with NEEV to champion vocational training and economic independence for women, she has mentored students to prioritize social responsibility alongside their academic pursuits. This partnership has successfully woven a spirit of community driven empowerment into the fabric of the university whi

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