Illustration/Ravi Jadhav

As the year was ending, and feminism was declared word of the year, an interesting boo-boo happened. A national newsmagazine interviewed eight comics for a cover story on comedy, only one of them a woman (Aditi Mittal). The cover featured caricatures of 7 comics. The missing one, was the woman. It reminded me of doing interviews for Q2P, my documentary on public toilets and gender. A man explained to me why there was no women's toilet near Dadar station, though there was one for men with, "auraton ko jagah zara zayada lagti hai na" (women require more space while peeing, so no ladies loo). Space taken up by women is always zara zyada, peeing or being.