Mapping places where women hung out in Bengaluru’s Cantonment area

But the Bengaluru-based writer and teacher, an assistant professor at St. Joseph’s University, did not just stumble upon Nair’s term serendipitously. “I was initially reading Mobile Girls Koottam: Working Women Speak by Madhumita Dutta, and was talking to my dean, Dr. Arul Mani, about the book,” she says. “It was he who suggested I read Janaki Nair.”