Itni raat ko akeli ladki kya kar rahi thi bahar? That's not a question. It is a justification for all the "bad things" that happen to women, and a rhetoric steeped in patriarchy.

The Night Shift, a recently released podcast on The Swaddle, a culture website, traverses through the lives of four women whose work begins post sunset - a constable in the ladies compartment, a bouncer at a night club, a radio cab driver, and a bar dancer.