The rise of women-only communities
It was in 2013 that Surabhi Yadav started thinking about leisure. That year, at 21, after her mother Basanti passed away, Yadav realised that the mother she knew and the per - son her inner circle was talking about were two different people. To know her better, she asked people how they remembered her. And another Basanti emerged—funny, goofy, some - one who laughed and joked. “The exploration of her leisure was the portal to my mother’s personhood. The moments when she was laughing, swim - min…



