On a day when most people in West Bengal opted to stay home taking advantage of a bandh, transgenders of Kolkata hit the streets to collect funds for the victims of the Nepal earthquake.
Hundreds of transgenders on Thursday evening held a condolence meeting, and donated for the victims.
“Though we are ourselves among the most deprived and socially excluded segments, we thought of helping in whatever manner we could,” Ranjita Sinha, secretary of Association for Transgenders/Hijras in West Bengal told The Hindu ..
Published - May 01, 2015 03:05 am IST
