At Tamil Nadu’s Koovagam festival, thousands of transgender women transitioned from symbolic brides to widows in a ritual mourning the mythic death of Lord Aravan. The 18-day event, rooted in the ...
We realised that we would be arriving at the festival on the evening of the 16th day. All sources confirmed that that was ...
At Tamil Nadu’s Koovagam festival, thousands of transgender women symbolically married Lord Aravan before enacting his widowhood the next day, following a Mahabharata legend. The ritual saw ...
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