Revathi’s Multiple Lives: Hijra, Sex Worker, Writer, Activist

Sonia Faleiro profiles Revathi, a hijra writer and activist who is trying to leave behind the scars she accumulated as a sex worker –

In a cramped study doubling as a bedroom and kitchen in a breezy Bangalore hamam, A Revathi, 37, inscribes a landmark autobiography commissioned by Penguin India. The story of one so young wouldn’t normally merit interest, but this will not hold true for the hijra writer and activist whose experiences simultaneously stun, sadden and uplift. As I write this in a study overlooking the Arabian Sea, we are but two writers separated by place.