Transsexuals or eunuchs (known as hijras or alis) in South India dress up for the annual temple festival in which the hijras get “married” to a god and then windowed the next day when the god is symbolically killed.

A hijra (eunuchs) putting make-up at Prakriti Sahodaran sponsored beauty pageant, Villupuram.

The hands of a hijra displaying sequined nail-polish.