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Some years ago, theatre director Mohit Takalkar had a chance encounter with an 'elephant' inside the general compartment of a Mumbai local. The elephant, he recalls, stood out in the compartment, otherwise bursting at the seams with men. When we ask him now, how an animal that huge had managed to fit inside the train, he corrects us, "I am talking about a woman." Even before we mistake this description for body shaming, he quickly adds, "I was referring to her aura." "She was tiny and alone in this sea of men, yet she possessed enough strength to make sure that nobody even touched her with their eyes."