LOO-KING AHEAD

What comes to your mind when you think about public toilets? Unsanitory, sometimes unsafe spaces that you wouldn’t want to venture into unless you’re in a dire emergency? Well, unfortunately, that’s a reality many of us live with, owing to the state of our public conveniences. So, when entrepreneurs Shivkala Mudaliar and Manish Kelshikar launched Woloo, a swanky, pay-peruse women’s-only powder room near Thane railway station in November 2019, it made national news.

Kelshikar and Mudaliar met