Only a woman can nonchalantly label herself what a man would be loath to admit, said the advertising old hand. You can talk to these ad-men they’ve got perspective. They champion so much bull as bounty they are Freudian, almost. “Sure, he’ll hunt you down but he’d label you kinder!” And saying such, Sanjay agreed to my definition of me. In the six months following the end of my eight-year marriage I had it chiselled down to a phrase. The sum-total of how men perceived me...

Illustration/Tirtha Ghosh