In a world where women still have to fight to speak their minds and be heard, it’s fitting that the Turkish word for females is ‘bayan’ — meaning ‘expression’ in Hindi. Director Akarsh Khurana remembers spotting the word plastered across women’s washrooms on a visit to Turkey. “So, I thought it would be a nice name for a piece where women are expressing themselves,” he tells us, ahead of the staging of Akvarious Productions’ upcoming show titled — no prizes for guessing — Bayan.