在印度首都的一次野生动物观察徒步活动中，一群女性分享了她们试图在一座陌生人自以为有权骚扰她们的城市里亲近自然的经历。
On a wildlife walk in the Indian capital, a group of women share their stories of trying to enjoy nature in a city where strangers feel entitled to harass them Vallari Sheel wishes she could carry a camera or a pair of binoculars without being asked what her father does for a living.
瓦拉里·希尔（Vallari Sheel）希望能带着相机或一副双筒望远镜，而不被人追问她父亲是做什么工作的。有一次，她在南德里家附近约50米处观察一棵树时，一名坐在车里的男子对她大喊：“你在这儿拍照拍了10天了。你拍这些照片要干什么？”希尔是一名城市生态学家，她花费数小时观察各种类型、各个季节的树木。为了自身安全，她经常开车出行，担心工作会给家人带来影响，并给她的女性实习生制定了明确的指导原则——当她们不可避免地被人搭讪时：不要接触，不要回应。
Once, looking at a tree in her south Delhi neighbourhood, about 50 metres away from her home, a man in a car screamed at her: “You have been clicking photos here for 10 days. What are you going to do with them?”Sheel, an urban ecologist, spends hours observing trees of all types in all seasons. She often travels by car for her own safety, worries about the impact of her work on her family, and has clear guidance for her female interns when they are, inevitably, approached: don’t engage, don’t respond.
