India, Sept. 7 -- Shot in the city that is home to the dargah of Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti, Ana Sagar and a Brahma temple, the roughly six-minute film asked an existential question: Where are the girls in Ajmer?

Ajmer ki ladkiyan kahan hai, is a question that could be asked of any of India's cities. Women make up roughly half the population but even a cursory look around the streets, bus stops, parks, markets, tea stalls-any public space, really-would lead one to wonder, where are the women? Inhabiting a city and being visible in it are two very different things.

So where are the girls? The question is not innocuous but comes loaded with political meaning: What does it take to make a city feel like it belongs to everyone? Where do young ...