The ‘third sex’ - ready to vote, but want better lives

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The 'third sex' - ready to vote, but want better lives
Thaindian News
By Shweta Srinivasan
April 15, 2009


http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/politics/the-third-sex-ready-to-vote-but-want-better-lives_100179768.html


New Delhi, April 15 (IANS) Twirling a lock of his shoulder-length hair, Suleiman (name changed) who goes by the name Sulekha stared at a pocket mirror. Checking the lipstick shade twice over, he sighed: "I want to vote - but what good will it do to me? How will it help my community?".

Sulekha is a eunuch from Seelampur in east Delhi. He is one of the 7,000-odd eunuchs in the capital.

"I do not have a voter card. How can I when I don't even know my identity? There is nothing that can be done for me or my kind," he said.