For a country that still tops the global league tables for bad places in which to be a woman, it’s not as easy these days to be a high-profile sexist as it used to be. Periodic pronouncements by grizzled patriarchs—whether politicians, journalists or bureaucrats—about how women either ‘asked for it’ or should be more careful in how they dress lest they be seen to be ‘asking for it’ are met with deserved outrage. Students have brought Jadavpur University in Calcutta to a halt over their demand that seriously allegations of sexual harassment be properly investigated by university authorities; they are in no mood to be fobbed off by charges reverting to their improper behaviour or youthful recklessness. A national newspaper’s recent cringingly adolescent nudging and winking at a photo of celebrity cleavage was also met with implacable contempt by the woman actor in question as well as many readers.