Oscar win puts little known Hapur village on world map

Meerut | Tuesday | 26th February, 2019

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“When we used to talk about menstruation or sanitary napkins, people would abuse us and call us ‘bad women’.” KATHIKEDA (HAPUR): Tucked away in a corner of Hapur district, some 120km from Delhi, Kathikeda was an obscure village -- till Monday. The women, who did not know about sanitary napkins and used cloth during their periods, now use pads. End of Sentence' winning an Oscar for best documentary, people from adjacent villages began arriving to celebrate The movie has been filmed on the sanitary pad-making unit here. Ironically, when the unit was set up in 2017, it had led to negative comments from villagers..