Swara Chavan

Sufism and bhaktism gives a space for the third gender people to embrace themself through Stri vesha. The transition or the jump from early times where same sex love was looked down upon to its acceptance of different forms in the society is something that is missing. Little do we know of any backstory of these people. So therefore my story imagines, What would their early life before achieving enlightenment be like? 

This is an imagined story of one such individual who grew up in a space where the environment was very restrictive for him to think of himself as something other than the identity that he was born with, that is a Male. Later under the pressure of family he gets married. (Slaves, as people have common notions, weren't confined to one place but used to also travel with their masters.) Being a labourer, there were times where he could travel for work sake. (The oral tradition of poetry dates back and appears in many forms: poetry, songs, proverbs, ballads, drama, tales, epics, and rhymes.) And that's when years later he comes across this group of people who were chanting, reciting, engrossed in devotion. In that spur of the moment he is enlightened and starts swaying around embracing his true self. Some people around him start swaying with him while some are giving looks and his wife is left shooked