Shocked by the title? Or maybe excited? Maybe you are thinking that I have gone crazy to talk about 'this' thing. Maybe, you will be disappointed with what I am going to write. In any case, since you are already here, do read till the end. Read because this is a true story about someone's private life and not-so-private life. In October 2014, I met a person with a beautiful voice. She sang a melodious Kannada bhajan. I and my friends sat around her to listen to her story, a story that was unheard of, a story which was not even close to our realities. She narrated 'her' story..a story of a transgender! Akkai is her name today but she was born as Jagadish. ...I was born as a male child, a child with male private parts. Born into an upper caste family and father serving in the Air Force, it was herculean to come out to them. My brother had married a Christian girl and was excommunicated. Then sister married a Dalit boy and was excommunicated too. At the tender ag...