The Koovagam festival in Tamil Nadu draws thousands of transgender women each year to symbolically marry the deity Aravan, inspired by a Mahabharata legend. The celebration lasts one night, after ...

Thousands of transgender women participated in the Koothandavar festival, reenacting the Mahabharata legend by marrying and ...

A marriage in Shivpuri, Madhya Pradesh, has spiralled into legal action after the groom alleged his bride was transgender, a claim she disputes. Both sides have filed complaints, with police advising ...

According to tradition, the participants symbolically marry Lord Aravan, wearing the thali mangalsutra, only to mourn as ...

The provocateur is remembered (in ITV’s words) as ‘one of the stately homos of England’. His great-nephew is making sure we ...

We realised that we would be arriving at the festival on the evening of the 16th day. All sources confirmed that that was ...