once madhu finishes up with her client, i spend some time with madhu's housemate, who i also met at theworkers have a shelflife. in the not too distant future, madhu's going to need help just to survive. madhu can't return to herfamily because they don't accept her as third gender. in a nation where the extended family system is the default for care in old age, what happens when that system rejects who you are? khurram lives in the diamond market area. today, he's trying his best to fit in to the ocean of bearded men in prayer caps, but it wasn't always like this for khurram. in fact, khurram used to be saima. khurram works as a tailor, making clothes for the third gender community — clothes that he no longer wears himself. i want to understand why he now dresses as a man. there's this real sense of sadness, and that's because khurram's not entirely being himself. he said it. there's the person who he was born, that's who he was assigned to be and he was raised as a boy, and then there's saima, and saima is who he feels his spirit is, and he says straight out that he misses saima. and h