Transgenders of Mumbai
October 5th, 2009 by Babe
With more than 4,000 years of recorded history Hijras have a supposedly sanctioned place in Indian life, but they’ve faced severe harassment.
If you are an Indian in need of some luck on your wedding day you could do no better than seek the blessing of one of the country’s estimated 200,000 male to female transsexuals or “hijras”.
I came across a great article on the Hijras’s of [/tag]India[/tag], that gives the lowdown on this complex part of Indian society. Periodically we have ventured into this area in our blog, but I thought this insightful article gives you a good look at the transgender of Mumbai,India
http://onlybombay.blogspot.com/2007/10/transgenders-of-mumbai.html
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