'Why Loiter?' Ten years have passed since the seminal book on women alone in cities was published
Indranil Mukherjee/AFP As a pre-teen in the mid-1990s and the early naughties, every time I stepped out to buy something from the nearby confectionary store, I would be extremely aware of myself when walking. This was Kanpur, my hometown and an erstwhile industrial city in north India. From an early age I had been told to monitor, censor and diminish my outings as much as possible. I was a girl and repeatedly reminded of being one by elders. These outdoor trips, however short, were the head...
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