💯 percent agreement. The campaign and the book were radical acts of self-love and liberation for so many of us women! We wrote about this is our podcast from last year...

The 2020 time-use study of India reveals findings that are stark but expected. More than 80 % of the women surveyed spent nearly five hours on house work and care work, whereas only 26% men surveyed reported spending a mere 1.5 hours on house work. The Why Loiter campaign asks why don't women loiter in their towns and cities? In our towns and cities, we always find men aimlessly hanging around, defacing public spaces by spitting or pissing, congregating in small groups to play cards and smoke. It's simple, normalise women loitering. Normalise women aimlessly wandering and being footloose flaneurs.

These are photos of us working a little, loitering a little at a lovely spot in Chitrakoot called Ganesh Bagh. In between news takes, we climbed trees and swirled around 19th century pillars like filmstars. Why loiter? Because it's fun!