With barely two weeks for Women’s Day, the pinkwashing has commenced. There are talks, panel discussions and online gigs. A corporate group, which also runs a lab, has offered me a Women’s Day special health check-up: TSH and ferritin levels emailed to you at discounted rates; mammogram at half the price. One opens the screen and there are offers raining on make-up, skin care and clothing, from factories that want us to consume more.

The other day, when someone asked me about the most valuable real estate, I said it is the space between one’s ears. Head space is the most precious space. It is where one lives. And that is exactly what a woman does not have to herself. The noise in the head is constant, shrill and annoying. It is programmed to plan ahead, for the next meal, the next meeting, the next crisis that is just around the corner. Many decades ago, in her path-breaking work, Virginia Woolf argued the case for a room of........

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