Progress will involve not just drawing on country’s pre-colonial past but challenging it too,say backers of anti-discrimination billIt was a prized job in urban India: manning a phone at a corporate call centre. Getting hired took three interviews, and then there was 10 days’ training.
At each stage, and Tona Chettri Chauhan would discreetly approach the interviewers or the trainers with a message. “I’m transgender,” she would say. “whether that’s a problem, I can leave right now.”
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Source: theguardian.com