Blank Noise conducted a small project on the busy city streets where their volunteers did nothing but Smile at the passers by. All you need is love, is it?

Neha Bhat:
Madam, kitna charge karega?” ( “how much will you charge?”)
This is was my first experience of being mistaken for a sex worker and being approached outright at a bus stop. Was I leering? Was I ‘sexily’ dressed? Did I wink and gesture lewdly? No, all did was smile.
Maybe I didn’t smile at only the people I knew. Maybe I did make eye contact with a person to make the smile on my face evident. Are these things ‘wrong’?

What’s interesting is, there were male volunteers and their came varied reactions. Read the report on the fun experiment yourself. Here.