The subject and co-creator of Deepa Mehta's new documentary "I Am Sirat" landed in the city on Tuesday night, having travelled from her home in New Delhi, and got something of a celebrity treatment.
"They're Instagramming her and telling her, 'when you come, you can borrow our jewelry.' They're all coming to the screening and they all wanted to come to the airport yesterday. She has never met them and they've become so close."On social media, at work at India's Ministry of Social Defence, out in the world, Taneja lives as her true self: a proud transgender woman.
But social media has long felt like a place where she can be herself, posting videos of herself dancing and lip synching to Punjabi music.
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