Grant us re-birth as man or woman, eunuchs pray to Ganga

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Grant us re-birth as man or woman, eunuchs pray to Ganga
January 30th, 2010 - 3:09 pm ICT by IANS
By Asit Srivastava

http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/health/grant-us-re-birth-as-man-or-woman-eunuchs-pray-to-ganga_100312025.html

Haridwar, Jan 30 (IANS) They haven't come to pray for salvation. After the years of ignominy and ridicule they have suffered, these hijras (eunuchs) have come to pray to the holy Ganga river to end their lives and grant them an early re-birth - as a man or woman.

Singing paeans to the Ganga in their hoarse voices, dancing to the beats of drums and clapping loudly, the eunuchs prayed to the river on the occasion of Magh Purnima — full moon in the month of Margh, according to the Hindu calendar — at the ongoing Maha Kumbh Mela here Saturday to rid them of their "present form".