It was Aziz Ansari's (centre) wearing of the Time's Up pin at the Golden Globes that presumably led to him being called out as a potential sexual assailant. File pic

When I unlocked the door to my apartment in Delhi on Tuesday evening, I beamed with joy. I was back home after almost a month spent being my parents' daughter, my sister's sibling, my nieces' and nephews' aunt, my neighbours' neighbour... all of which was enjoyable, but had made me miss my solitude. I had also run out of ingeniously polite ways to defend my blatantly greying hair, my stubbornly un-married status, and my reluctance to participate in hetero-normative activities that define middle-class living.