The Third Gender: Eunuch!!

Sarita Jangam, Lingam (Sarita Mausi).

‘The Third Gender’ is one of the taboo things in India! These are the people who face huge ignorance in society; they are not treated as a human being. They are been abused and harassed by general people, from past years! In India third genders are known as ‘Hijra’(Eunuch). The official count of hijras in India is 4.9lakhs according to census 2014. The literacy rate of Hijras is very low because they drop out of school because of harassment and discrimination they face. These third gender people are facing a lot of problems and Sarita Mausi is one of them.

Sarita Jangam, Lingam (Sarita Mausi), was born in 'Mysore, India'. She have a very sweet family at her village (Mom,Dad,2 Sisters and 4 Brothers) all are farmers in her family was facing poverty issues, due to which she came to Mumbai when she was the 14 to earn, Eunuchs are blessed by god!! They bless people and earn money in form of 'Shagun'(Omen); This is how Mausi earn money i.e. By blessing newly wedded couples and new born babies. But Now a days Mausi is facing problems to do so! People refuse to enter her in buildings and locality and also refuse to give her money because of some 'Fake Eunuchs'! Yes!! Fake!! These are the one which are found in Trains and at Traffic signals; who irritates male by touching their sexual parts. Mausi says, these eunuchs are dressed like the real ones and misuse their powers! They do so for begging sake and they have families like general people (Husband, Wife and Kids). She says that she is not against them because she can also feel the pain as its hard to survive in city like Mumbai; But! At the same moment she says that they should not spoil prestige and name of real eunuchs because after all its their profession. Mausi says, She wishes to stop all these things because of these fake ones real onse name is getting spoilt.. She also tried to defend them but she is weak in front of those fake ones because they are male in real and mausi is third gender.. She needs help for People like us who gives money to these fake ones.. She says if we will not give money automatically they will stop misuse of authorities of real hijras Other than public.. she also says that These Fake Eunuchs have 7 'Patel' (leaders,head) who can control them from misusing the authorities...
These 7 Patel stays at 'byculla'  they alot areas to these fake Eunuchs..  Mausi says Other than byculla these fake ones are also found in 'Daulatnagar,Borivali (E)'  Guys these can be alerted areas for us to recognise if these are fake ones or the real one. Mausi’s another message to this world is that not to leave a child on streets or to an orphanage if he is an Eunuch! She has also shared some sad things about her personal life i.e. he family is suffering many problems because of shortage of water in her hometown. Water is very much essential to survive, it is one of the basic needs, but the basic need is not fulfilled by Indian government due to which farmers and other needy persons have to face such issues!! Mausi wishes if government could work on this issue so that she can go back to her family and stop earning on here because here she is getting ignorance and her hometown gives her the privilege.