Unorganised mein hi maza hai!" said N, who is part of a feminist organisation that has been carrying out a Women's Day talk series at Vadodra University for four years, to a hall packed with young people. Everyone cheered and clapped, even though we were running late because of the inevitable technical dramas that accompany non-corporate events. "But we're here together, that's the fun!" she added. "Celebrating that we're different, but not unconnected, no?"

Unorganised maza was something I was tasting after a while, as so many events about women, gender, feminism take on a corporate or academic format nowadays. A little while earlier, all dressed up, our earrings dangly, our pallus and dupattas colourful but not very neat, our hands full of tripods and rolled up posters and thailis we had got into a car, then climbed out, perplexed because when coaxed to start, the car would emanate plaintive beeps. "I think she has heated up" said N.