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Her name was Kumari. She was about 17. She rested her face on the edge of the charpoy on which I sat, a round face with a soft expres-sion, somewhat prematurely sensuous for her age. The eyes hełd an eloquent appeal. Clean hair, oiled and tied in a knot. ‘Must take her photograph,’ I thought. ‘Would look unusual in the midst of all the sąualor.’

I asked if she would pose for one. Kumari nodded assent with delightful eagerness, her eyes suddenly sparkling with anticipation. As she stood in the sun, I asked her to untie her hair.

And then came the shock.

‘Accbaji, khol deti hunV - a thick strong małe voice.

Yes, ‘she’ was a hijra in a colony of hijras. When I went closer to make ‘her’ stand in a particular manner, I noticed that there wasn’t so much girlishness, after all, particularly the fiat chest! Yet so authentic was the appearance that I was still ready to believe it was a girl.

Kumari symbolized the tragedy of the hermaphrodite world -treated as subject of bawdy jest and laughter, shunned by most, mis-understood by all.

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