The core worldview of the soil is hostile to menstruation, which is the treatment of anything as an impurity or a stigma connected with untouchability to that distinct activity. If you choose to approach it from a position of impureness, then, in essence, your viewpoint is not Indian. It is western, and if you try to force your specific understanding of menstruation onto an Indian institution—or, I should say, an Indian system—and expect that institution to re