kamala das' the dance of the eunuchs is well more descriptive then your short opinion. you could do more justice by putting a few more of your view points.

I personally don't have anything against eunuchs but yes they do play a major role in prostitution and the same is also carried on in the Indian trains....hence the view that you have is pretty precise but there are a lot more factors which contribute in an over all view for the whole aspect which needs to be well put in the matter to suffice your point more clearly.

well if anybody, by clapping and doing some 'nakhre', can earn a handsome amount everyday why will he leave that profession? they do all these intentionally so that, to get rid of the irritation u lend up in paying money to them. did anybody stop them from going to school? if they want to go to school and want to do a job can anybody stop them? they consider their condition to be a privilege rather than a stigma, i believe. Moving on to society and its attitude, its not the fault of the society alone but the intention of them as well that they face hatred from the society. their behaviour on the road is quite irritating, so how can u develop a good comment about them? you see something and immediately develop an attitude about it. not many people have the time to go to the root cause to find out why it is so? and all. so people at large have bad idea about them. they have to fight for their own cause just like anybody else. if homosexuals can fight for their cause than why not these people can do the same? i am sympathetic to them and understand that the world is not the same for them just for the normal people but if they want something better than what they have today, they have to fight for it.

What kinds of comments are these by learned people. They are very well part of our society and those who make fun of them should be thrown out of the society.
It is our mistake that we have not been able to uplift them and get them into the mainstream..
its a pathetic condition for us not them.

Speaking from personal experience... all transgender people are marginalised very much by society. and this easily creates an artificial society and way of life for hijra and transgenders.... that is a life of poverty and prostitution.

Yes, there are a few of us who are able to struggle, educate and rise above these influences.

But ultimately it is the whole of society that needs to care and put into place supportive programs for better education, and job opportunities.

The same argument has been demonstrated with the rise of women rights. 100 years ago, they were denied vote, basic human and employment rights. yes there were a few who raised themselves above this oppressive societal attitude, but it is only with an overall change of society attitude that society changed, and governments implemented policies to promote employment and education opportunities for women.

the same pathway has also been demonstrated with the rise of balck people. in the past we also use d to give them very few human rights.

To say that once we lived in a golden age and now we are in a fallen age of kali is false.

the reality is that we used to live in a very ignorant age, and it is only iwth modernisation, that we are entering and dawning into a golden age of compassion, caring for people who are different, and legislating such caring feelings into policies for health and employment and human rights.

unfortunately, some of our neighbouring socieities, still live in the d arkest of ages in terms of womens rights, native rights, and hijra rights dont even make a showing... this is the tragedy