With a seperate women compartment in Delhi metro, has given the Capital’s women a degree of mobility and has made a great deal of sense to give them their own space even though it has its limitations. Even after 66 years of independence, women in the capital need to every day negotiate simple freedoms. There are twenty-five per cent of the 2.2 million commuters who use the Metro daily are women and they often suffer from harassment, staring from the males in general compartment.

Many women suffer a lot in their marriages, in their socio-economic situations. Some can laugh it off, certainly, they have that strength of spirit; but if the suffering is constant and unending, or monotonous, the music in them dies. Humor is not just the ability to laugh, it’s the ability to transcend a situation and see it for what it is.”