While in the chaayakadas (tea shops), vaayanashalas (libraries), art/sport clubs, or even in the courtyard of their own houses, men can be found discussing politics, sports, and whatnot, it’d be a miracle to find a group of women in the same setting, loudly raising their opinions and thoughts. This gendered culture of public spaces in Kerala is mirrored in films and literature by endearing visual statements of men huddled under the banyan tree or open fields having the time of their lives. Public spaces reflect local culture and can promote community involvement, from which women are excluded. In a culture where patriarchy flourishes, women would be encouraged to stay within the bounds of their families and limit their ability to connect with others outside of the circles accepted by the men in their families. As an extension of this phenomenon, different spheres of space and access to them have played a major role in the lack of sisterhood and peer groups among women. Bound to have a functional or operational reason to be in public, women are kept away from public spaces for leisurely activities. In the pretence of leisure, women can be found in supermarkets, shopping malls, or other places where the time they spend could be easily defended by the duties they are to perform as homemakers. The idea of leisure for women has been shaped by guilt since childhood. While male specimens watch their favourite cartoons and play outdoors with others, female borns are urged to stay indoors and clean up after the meal in most families. The various ways of domesticating women from an early age to serve others at home make leisure look like a crime, which is then passed on to adulthood. All the movies I saw growing up showed me the rich leisure culture I was born into. People sitting in the chaayakadas (tea stalls) sipping tea, people under the aalmaram (banyan tree) discussing anything and everything under the sky, people in the parambu (fields) having alcohol—anywhere could be a site of leisure for people. What I realised a little later in life is that these people don’t include groups of women. In a society where public space is accessible to women only for necessities, I declare leisure a necessity.  As the ideas of gendered spaces are passed down through generations, the project aims to encourage a cultural shift in the contemporary time that witnesses women claiming public spaces for leisure—by using art as a means to rewrite the history of public spaces that excluded women. “Vaikittentha parupady” is a widely spoken slogan among men in Kerala, India, which translates to “What are your evening plans?" Over two decades ago, a famous movie star used this in an ad that caught on through the years in the pop culture of Kerala, and never in history has the line been associated with women.