It was an afternoon in January. I had taken an auto to reach a hard-to-reach school tucked inside Goregaon. Within, amidst footballers and children breaking for lunch, there was supposed to be an NGO's office. Here, I was to be interviewed by a camera crew for my recollections of the early beginnings of Men Against Violence and Abuse (MAVA), India's first ever group of men committed to working with other men to prevent violence against women.

The NGO was young and the room was still emerging from its native chaos. On the desk was a telephone handset, still wrapped in its pristine plastic wrapping. I was told that the group planned to run a suicide prevention hotline.