Eden Gardens and her friends have been trying to find a place for themselves. A public place, to hang out with friends, to have a laugh and to share a cup of tea. Unfortunately, in spite of not being males, they chose to wear shorts and smoke at said locations. Read up about what happened next:

A week ago, some of us ladies were unwinding there, on the corner tea stall. The boys had left for some work. We noticed a number of police around the place, but never paid them much heed. The next day, we return and find the make shift benches of the stall had been overturned and the proprietor informed by the police, to not allow women to do “unsocial” activities or it would cost him his business. Our offense? We were women sitting at a corner on the main road, drinking tea and occasionally smoking. And we wore shorts. So now we are forced to sit in the darkened park and it’s a risk to the stall owner if we call out aloud for cigarettes.