In 1981,when an American woman,Serena Nanda came to conduct research to write an anthropological study on hijras, she was blessed by a priest at a Ganesha temple and felt that it was an "auspicious" beginning to her research.Result-Neither Man nor Woman,the Hijras of India.

From methodology to narrative, the book is problematic to say the least.For instance, she goes to a hijras household but for reasons she can& #39;t articulate even to herself(as she writes), she chooses another hijra household as her main site because of the "good vibrations" she felt

And here we are in 2020, you can& #39;t even order a good vibrator on Amazon india.

Not going to make a thread of criticism of her book here for researchers to lazily plagiarise without citing me. So this is the end of this thread. Have a good vibrations day folks :-)