Throughout my time as an undergraduate student in Delhi University, my peers and I had to guard ourselves from groping hands in crowded buses as we learnt to kick the man trying to rub himself against us. It was a daily struggle in Delhi’s buses. We did not know what we were suffering. The name we gave this daily humiliation was “eve teasing”. The risk of being molested would increase before Holi and one student from the philosophy department persuaded Doordarshan to hold a programme on “eve teasing” before Holi. She invited me to be on the panel along with...