In India, menstruation is often viewed as a ‘polluting’ process, and is hence used to curb women’s mobility in private as well as in certain public spaces. It is viewed as something that women should feel shame about, and hence all signs that a woman is menstruating is concealed from others. There has been an increasing preoccupation with menstruating bodies in the recent times in India, which can be first and foremost situated in the broader discussions on women’s health – particularly the sexual and reproductive health of women. Since 2010, the state has sought to address the menstrual health needs of adolescent girls in particular – by means of ensuring better sanitation facilities or installation of sanitary napkin-vending machines in schools and disposal systems for menstrual management. The central and state governments have also introduced programmes to train adolescents about their health, including their sexual and reproductive health in general and menstrual health in particular. At the same time, radical ways of re-imagining the menstruating body have emerged from feminist articulations mostly by young women in India – in the form of campus-based students’ activism or campaigns on digital media spaces. These campaigns have led to a questioning of the stigmatisation of the menstruating body and breaking the silences around menstruation, along with introducing discussions on issues around gender-based violence, rape culture, and everyday sexism in an interlinked manner. The study discusses two of the major discourses around the menstruating body in India in the recent times – (i) menstrual activism in university spaces and on social media, seeking to de-stigmatise the menstruating body and (ii) the state and non-governmental organisations’ interventions in adolescent health, seeking to make adolescent girls more aware of their bodies and the biological process of menstruation, and thus break away from the ‘shame’ and ‘stigma’ associated with menstruation.