Reading Serena Nanda's book, 'Neither Man nor Woman' in 1991, Californian Anne Ogborn
was struck struck by how the transgender people Nanada described had found a different
way to deal with non-transgendered people and with each other. In 1993 she learned
rough Hindi and went to new Delhi where she found an independent Hijra community with
the help of gay Indian men. After meeting the community of Bangladeshi guru Ratnaa
and going out dancing with them, she joined the group which became her family. The
video was shot over the last days near the end of her first stay. She has since returned
to India twice more and is trying to arrange visits to the US for some of her sisters.
“The Second International Transgender Film & Video Festival Program.” London: Alchemy
Festival Productions, 1998. Personal Archives.