I grew up very near the city’s red-light district, but beginning to understand it has taken years – and I have learned much from the courage of these brave outsiders “Whatever you imagine, it will ...

Bollywood To Release 'Queens! Destiny Of Dance', A Movie, By The End Of This Month That Narrates Issues Faced By The Hijra Community. The Movie Stars Laxmi Narayan Tripathi, A Thane Resident And One ...

The vivid make-up, rose-red lipstick and colourful saris draped across a body that is neither entirely male nor entirely female make South Asia’s Hijra community among the most visible sexual ...

A group of 15,000 will file a PIL with 15 demands for the community Fed up with unresponsive politicians, an organisation that represents the rights of hijras or eunuchs in the city plans to file a ...

Two cases in the family court have shown how all-encompassing 'mental cruelty' can be in divorce matters. MUMBAI: Two cases in the family court have shown how all-encompassing 'mental cruelty' can be ...

6 Pack Band has put the stigmatized transgender community on the global creative map. But there’s a long way to go. India’s transgender (Hijra) community celebrated a win last week. Unlike the Supreme ...

What do eunuchs (hijras) do to earn livelihood? Who will employ them? Is there any educational institutional to enroll their community for free education? When will they get our constitutional rights?

One of the country’s largest meeting of hijras was held at the Dadar’s Shjvaji Mandir on September 20th by the city’s Hijra NGO, Kinnar Ma Trust. Over a 1,500 hijras packed the auditorium silently ...

As a young man, Mumbai-born author and playwright Anosh Irani recalls being intrigued by a group of women who congregated at the gates of his convent school every evening, all wearing the same strange ...