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An uncomfortable truth

Started by Natasha, September 05, 2010, 12:25:21 AM

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An uncomfortable truth

http://www.financialexpress.com/news/an-uncomfortable-truth/677365/
9/5/10

For once, here is an autobiography of an ordinary person. What makes The Truth About Me: A Hijra Life Story extraordinary is the magnitude of revelations about ->-bleeped-<-s, a community that is quite an enigma for most of us.

The author, A Revathi, an actor and an activist based in Bangalore, comes across as a simple woman. Except, she was born a boy, Doraisamy, in a small village of Salem district. Right from his adolescent years, Doraisamy felt like a woman trapped in a man's body.
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