No work for desi Pejics
Shara Ashraf, Hindustan Times
New Delhi, January 11, 2012
http://www.hindustantimes.com/Entertainment/Tabloid/No-work-for-desi-Pejics/Article1-795613.aspxWhile Australian male model Andrej Pejic has struck million-dollar deals shooting for women's clothing, Delhi's own transgender models, as stunning as they look, are denied a fair chance thanks to homophobia.
The transgender models back home, who are anatomically male but feel, behave and dress up like a woman, claim they are exploited by unscrupulous coordinators. Saloni (born Rahul Monga), with her porcelain skin, dimpled cheeks, and 36-24-26 frame, can give a complex to any woman. But, when the 21-year-old law student approached a coordinator with her portfolio and admitted that she was biologically, a man, he demanded a hefty fee for her 'unusual gender'. "After keeping me waiting for months, he pushed me out of his office saying 'tum to na aurat ho na mard ho, tumko kaun kaam dega." (you are niether man nor woman, who will give you work)
