In October 2024, as cyclone Dana raged through Orissa, residential students of NISER who were otherwise in lockdown had to brave the winds into town to look for sanitary napkins - a necessity not stocked by the college. By analyzing the accessibility of menstrual facilities in three similar higher education institutes, Mouli Sharma points us to the glaring absence of Urban Menstrual Policy in India and how it affects women pursuing educational opportunities.