Why This Hijra Did Not Go To Bombay Gymkhana!, originally uploaded by firoze shakir photographerno1.
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This is beggar hijra who solicits for alms at the Turner Road Traffic signal..she is an old contact her guru is an old friend of mine..
We were meeting after a very long time and I told her about the sordid inhuman treatment of a Hijra icon Laxmi Narayan Tripathi..at the eltist Bombay Gymkhana , she listened to me and was not at all shocked as she told me in Mumbai many a times she was thrown out from temples too.
She lives in a slum, she along wth a few others and she has no dreams.
Yes imagine being human and not having deams.. she has been debarred from her dreams too.
I live beg shit get
fucked on the
roads I tread
roads made by a
man made power
left over from
restaurants
she is fed
cops chase her
at the traffic signal
a fine Rs 1200
per begging head
but honestly
without cheating
conning
she earns her
daily bread
to a slimy
two timing
mother fucker
a drunkard
a lazy dick head
she is wed
but she loves
him almost
like a cricketer
loves a tennis star
unwed
love the most
dangerous
crazy emotion
she said
nodding
her head
love
a perpetual
thorny bed
as the cars
around
her sped
she is happy
with her lot
this beggar hijra
a torn saree
a smelly blouse
pickled red
who lives
on the railway
tacks
in a tin roofed
fucked up
shed
she had an
invitation
as a speaker
for tedx
at
bombay gym
but she sent
laxmin narayan tripathi
instead
the rest
of her story
she left
unsaid
shaking
her hijra
pendulous
buttocks
she
went ahead
