Citizens without rights come out of the shadows

TimesOfIndia.IndiaTimes.com – Insiya Amir, TNN

By day, they haunt traffic light junctions and accost visibly uncomfortable urban commuters for money. By night, they are there again, this time soliciting male customers. It’s not the kind of life anyone would aspire to, but hijras Seeta and Geeta, as they like to call themselves, are not particularly unhappy.

“At least we get to be who we are,” says Seeta, the older one. No matter that the hijra community is not recognized by the Constitution – Seeta and Geeta are being the “women” they wanted to be…