In the wake of the #MeToo movement in India, Mary E. John revises an older feminist formulation by observing that suddenly sexual violence is everywhere (138).1 The emergence of informal and unofficial spaces for testimony in public gatherings, news media and online sources- lecture halls, TED talks, editorial pages, blogs and online comments sections-has allowed for a proliferation of public judgements in matters of sexuality outside of state-regulated mechanisms (Gilmore 5). Shifts in public space for complaint and judgement are then marked by both an increased pervasion of private actors negotiating notions of justice, and the development of politically varied positions on sexual relations and imaginations of justice outside the purview of institutional law. Next, we see an older Bulbbul decked in finery as the head of her house, holding court in a large verandah and sitting in judgement over a man who has brought home a second wife. ...texts portray "middle age-the onset of the infertile period when the sexual connection was usually terminated-as a time of relative power, freedom, status and happiness" (Sarkar 237).