There's a scene in the 2001 French comedy Amélie when the movie's protagonist asks herself, "How many couples are having an orgasm right now?" The answer she arrives at seems to be 15. Looking out of a Mumbai apartment, shuttered in by its grills with the rains beating down and competing in volume against the traffic, if one asks oneself this question, what answer will one get?

With an estimated population of 22.5 million in Mumbai, and using the generic adult percentage of India (55), and other surveys of "have you ever orgasmed" — various surveys through India say 70 per cent of women respondents had never orgasmed and in another report 55 per cent of male respondents admitted to faking an orgasm — the real statistic evades us.