Hijras Like To Have Fun

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Before God made hijras from the scrotum of man , he gave them trinkets on their feet to make them dance their way through life with ease without discomfort.

And the seed in the scrotum of man when it became a full fledged hijda, the scrotum self destructed.. adding to the mystique of the Hijras androgynous myth of survival.

The hijra is a parallel line running between pain and remorse , he cannot be fully what he wants to be , he inherits feminine grace charm characteristics but he is haunted by the missing vagina and taunted by a missing womb.

Hijras have no reproductive female organs but yet they make excellent mothers to a child they adopt , they lavish love and everything they have.

Hijra are lonely creatures of the night , they sleep wingless through the day and when night comes they fly.. yes hijras are birds of beauty born in captivity.

Over the years I have been shooting the hijra I have watched and observed them not merely as a photographer but as a mystic street poet too.

The only two places where I spent a lot of time with the hijras was Haji Malang and Ajmer.
And I absorbed their spirit of survival and their pain concealed beneath a bright red bleeding lipstick.

But I must confess the angst of the hijra survival I felt at the red light area in Mumbai called the Cages of Peela House, the hijra prostitute and the woman prostitute bound together in Gordian knot first come first fucked.

Having Heena Hijra as my patron , the uncrowned queen of Peela House I saw some hijra cubicles where a customer is serviced , the creaky filthy cot , the dirty filthy starched seminal stains vying for attention ,
bed bugs moving around , the stench of urine the claustrophobic surroundings and I was politely told not to take pictures , the painted hijra whore waiting to beat the shit if I dared to remove my camera.

While I was leaving she looked at me lustfully hoping I would become human and add my stains on the bedsheet too..but she knew I was highly connected with her Guru and let me go out in the street where flesh is cheaply bought and cheaply sold.

Yes I prefer shooting this variety of hijras or the ones I see begging on the streets the grass root hijra condemned to hell everlasting.

Hijras on Peela house dont look like hijras , its only when they open their mouth or when they open their legs..both are for sexual gratification..

And it is surprising that young kids who come here fr the first time prefer to fuck the hijra than the woman prostitutes I was told ..

The other place a little distant from Peela House is the HJijda Gully No 1, this is the hijra citadel, and you find all kinds of hijras the rich the poor and the fucked very poor.


Most of the nubile young new hijras have their toy boys so you dont mess with them

I am close to Zeenath Guru here , I had bought my American friend Dr Glenn Losack here but the building which houses the hijra hell was being repaired.


I have not come here since a long time.

And why I shoot the hijras I dont know it just began , shooting the hijra whores at Matunga road clandestinely from the cab..now the place where I began my hijra tryst has been completely demolished .. nothing remains just 3 or 4 pictures I shot .

I was also very close to a Hijra Bawa once a queen of Mumbai now old she comes to visit her adopted daughter at Chor Bazar, she is one of the mujawirs of the Kuldabad Dargah.

We meet each year at Haji Malang and she dances beautifully in her old age too.

So this is the hijra poetry of pain as a blog.