Gender, sex and article 377.

When I was a Plastic Surgery resident in the opening year of this century, pediatric plastic surgeons used to operate and turn any child, born with deformed genitals that were neither fully male nor female into: Female. That was easier.   Many advocated operating as soon as possible, so that, the ‘grandmother’ doesn’t assign any […]

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A prick through the jeans.

I was somewhere. Deep inside Indian territory, travelling. We were a few newly minted doctors. Middle class in India means you are among the top five in the country in purchasing power. You basically know that a world exists outside. External to your tightening circle of misery. The deep India that I refer, is part […]

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