{"product_id":"souls-of-someone","title":"Souls of Someone","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA remarkable visual and literary work on faith, gender, and belonging at the Koovagam festival — the world's largest annual gathering of Hijras and transgender women.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEvery year in a small Tamil Nadu village, thousands of Hijras and transgender women gather for the Koovagam festival — a centuries-old ritual that re-enacts the marriage of the god Aravan, son of Arjuna, and ends with his death and their collective mourning as his widows.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAward-winning journalist Shino Cherian spent years documenting this extraordinary gathering: a place where mythology, gender, faith, kinship, and politics collide, and where some of India's most marginalised people briefly become its protagonists.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThrough intimate portraits, photographs, and powerful narrative reportage, \u003cem\u003eSouls of Someone\u003c\/em\u003e moves beyond the spectacle of the festival to the everyday lives, loves, struggles, and resilience of its participants. With a foreword by trans rights activist Grace Banu, this is a deeply human work — about identity, longing, lineage, ritual, and the search for recognition in a world that has too often refused it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch4\u003ePraise\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"A remarkable, moving visual diary.\"\u003c\/em\u003e — Manu S. Pillai, author of \u003cem\u003eFalse Allies\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch4\u003eAbout the author\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShino Cherian is an award-winning journalist and photographer who has reported extensively on identity, gender, and community in India. \u003cem\u003eSouls of Someone\u003c\/em\u003e is the culmination of years of immersive reporting at Koovagam.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch4\u003eAbout the foreword\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGrace Banu is a leading trans-rights activist in India, founder of the Trans Rights Now Collective, and one of the most prominent voices in the movement for Dalit and trans solidarity.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins India","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51685377081560,"sku":"9789369891269","price":799.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0818\/1471\/6632\/files\/9789369891269-L.jpg?v=1778771789","url":"https:\/\/www.readersparadise.co\/products\/souls-of-someone","provider":"readersparadiseindore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}