Who knew aise bhi din aayenge? The Merriam Webster dictionary has declared an F word, the word of the year. Yaniki, Feminism, because searches for the meaning of the word feminism went up by 70 per cent in 2017 as compared to 2016.

Isn't that just, well, cool and groovy? Because feminism is one of those things that people love to argue about - or rather against - without ever having really looked at the histories of movements, theories, legal and political debates. They make up a definition retro-fitted to their fears and anxieties and argue away. They suggest other names for feminism - humanism, womanism and my favourite, heard most recently, equalism, which sounds a bit like a movement for putting sugar substitutes in your coffee. They take potshots at feminist earnestness (because to argue seriously is to engage. To take potshots is like pulling pigtails, but, chalo, boyz will be boyz).