Perched outside Madhavbagh Temple, decorated with antique mirrors, this 100-year-old shop serves up juicy paans, plump with mawa.

When you haven't been getting any, other people notice that.... You yourself don't know that you haven't been getting any, you just think, oh, another week has gone by. ...But, on the other hand, when I haven't been getting any and then I get some, overnight I become a different person. ... Next day you wake up, you're Mahatma Gandhi.

One night she invited me to meet her from her advertising agency in a rather posh Mayfairish pub and I was saying to her, “What does this character look like?”

If “bi now, gay later” is one side of an offensive, disrespectful coin, the LUG (or “lesbian until graduation”) stereotype is its counterpart.