Gender bender

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Gender bender
Abhilasha Ojha / New Delhi July 12, 2008, 0:52 IST

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You see transgenders on Indian streets begging or plying the sex trade. But there was Laxmi holding forth on Salman Khan's Dus Ka Dum. Who is she and what was she doing on primetime TV? Abhilasha Ojha finds out

A lot of people say that I'm media savvy, I sleep around to get my work done, or, I don't work at all; that being a 'voice' for my community is one big sham, my NGO is nothing but a huge racket through which I make all the money... It's a price I pay to speak my mind."