Transgenders spend days on cleaning brass, copper utensils every Diwali
TNN 16 October 2009, 10:37pm IST
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/vadodara/Transgenders-spend-days-on-cleaning-brass-copper-utensils-every-Diwali/articleshow/5132655.cms VADODARA: Diwali cleaning at any household might need a couple of maids, some floor cleaner and brooms. But at a transgender's house in the city,
the requirement is of 10 maids, around 20 kgs of tamarind, a lot of fine riverbed clay dust and three days of effort. And all this merely to clean utensils!
The community in Vadodara has, since years, accumulated bronze and copper utensils in their houses. As many as 25 transgender households exist at Baranpura area of the city and all of them stick to this routine of cleaning every year.
