Ilavenil I.T

What can translations of Indian short fiction originally published in the late 19th and early 20th centuries possibly tell us about our lives today? Indeed, why seek out such stories at all in this day and age?

A transgender activist and memoirist, Thanuja Singam speaks to Frontline about navigating identity across three countries, the weaponisation of beauty standards, and why she used sex as “the key to being a woman” in a patriarchal world that offers trans people both hatred and worship. Edited excerpts: What does gender mean to you? Gender doesn’t mean anything to me because we can’t specify anything by birth. A person has all the gender identities within themselves.