Padma Shri Dr Narthaki Nataraj – every single word in her name smells of blood, toil, tears and sweat. The first transgender artiste to be honoured with Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian award in the country, Narthaki looks back at her journey through rejections, bravery, hatred, insults, perseverance and success.

Born and brought up in the rustic charm of Madurai in Tamil Nadu, Narthaki grew up among her 10 siblings, enjoying the love and warmth of a joint family. When she started experiencing the bliss of feminineness growing inside her male body, she couldn’t express it to anyone. She terms it ‘a beautiful feeling’. In the 80s and 90s, when society wasn’t open to gender diversity, when society decides for each person – what one should be, what one should wish for and if one should laugh at all, Narthaki soon became an outcast. Her only solace in the loneliness was the enlightenment of the feminineness and the dancer in her.

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