Drummer Boy of Peela House

These are the quintessential drummer boys of Peela House , thy live in this area but they earn during the various urus in the city and the city outskirts , most of them are very good looking and are adopted by the hijra whores as toy boys..they have a great equation with the hijra samaj and can earn a princely sum in a single day..shooting this area dressed as I am has its heart aches too, I am barefeet, but thanks to Heena hijra I have been saved from being beaten up by the whores and the pimps..


Young teenagers from various parts of India come here to become a vibrant part of the story of the hijras..a story does the rounds here , many years back a Sikh child was kidnapped and bought here , she was a hermaphrodite , and became the reigning queen of this area , her pictures hang on the walls of these houses , but she disappeared one fine day..

Every hijra room has the story of the ancestors on the walls, they are remembered each year or during the All India hijra Sammelans.

But the most intriguing and spiritually defying is the HIjra Bawa , who has renounced the world of decaying flesh and does dua tawiz,,the hijra bawas are found at Char Yar Ajmer..

I dont know why God chose me as a Sutradar to tell the story of the hijra..I dont run after the hijras but they are shown to me ..like a divine light..

I have this month not seen a hijra and one day they will come out from the creaking walls of my mind ///

Because of my work, I hardly have to time to go and shoot the hijras , I have not gone to the red light area either..but I will meet them we are androgynouly locked in each others destiny..There are hijras at Lal Mitti Bandra , at Navpada and at Behrampada..the most famous hijra of Lal Mitti began life as Asif and gradually became a Hijra known as Reshma..his toy boy is a good kid , looks like Sallubhai..

This post was text less till I voluptuously added words to the flesh of my thoughts..