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Menstruation is a universal biological process and is happening in almost all female body. Society plays a great role in treating menstruators as the 'others', bringing them to the peripheral level in the name of culture, caste and gender. Male Power is constructed in the patriarchal society by attributing low cultural status to a menstruating woman. Women during their periods are going through various physical, psychological and health issues which are less discussed in literature. Still, women hesitate to speak in public on menstruation and related issues. The Palgrave Book of Critical Menstruation Studies edited by Chris Bob et.al. discusses various aspects of menstruation through the write ups by various personalities and it includes personal narratives, general aspects and activists' write ups. This paper aims at identifying how culture, caste and gender intersect in the personal narratives on menstruation in order to attribute a secondary status to menstruating women.