10 Min Read As kids, whenever we d travel to our nani s place traveling via train, my mother would hide me away when the eunuchs would enter the coach, even as I got excited to see them the fact that they looked both male and female. In tenth standard, I would wear lipstick and throw my sister s dupattas over myself. My mother would initially dress me up like girls, but my father, who is very strict, had an actual, physical line outside the household that I wasn t supposed to cross. The overall shame and fear I would feel from society and my father turned me into a kid who was, most of the time, isolated and afraid, recalls entrepreneur and social worker Urooz Hussain.
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Ziro
A village in Arunachal Pradesh, Ziro is the land of Apatani tribe and marked for its pine hills and mountain rice produce.
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Chitkul
Chitkul is a village located in Kinnaur region of Himachal Pradesh. It is the last village on the old Hindustan-Tibet trade path and the last point in India that one can visit without a permit.
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Kasol
Kasol is a Himalayan village, located in the Parvati Valley, on the banks of Parvati River in Himachal Pradesh. It is a backpackers’ paradise, and a base for Kheerganga and Malana treks.
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Chopta
Known as the Mini Switzerland of India, Chopta is a village in Uttarakhand, located 29 km from Ukhimath. It is the base camp for Tungnath-Chandrashila trek.
CHANDIGARH, Dec 27: Haryanvi youth Pradeep Sangwan’s campaign of clearing plastic waste from different areas of the Himalayas on Sunday drew praise from Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The 35-year-old who hails from Gurgaon is a mountaineer based in Himachal Pradesh and he established ‘Healing Himalayas Foundation’ four years ago. Sangwan, along with a team of volunteers, clears tonnes of plastic and other waste left behind by tourists each year.
In his last ‘Mann Ki Baat’ broadcast of the year, Modi, while talking about new resolves for the new year, said there are some people who continuously keep doing something new and keep on realising new resolves.