I Am Vidya

A woman’s feelings. A woman’s tenderness. A woman’s love, desires, longing. All trapped in a man’s body. How do I get rid of this identity I spurn? How I wish I could discard this body the way a snake sheds its skin? How will I redeem my self, my identity, my feelings, my dreams? How many deaths have I died, succumbing to the heaps of humiliations, wounds and barbs life has aimed at me? Yet my journey has crossed these hurdles. It has a meaning. I have found a body that’s perfect for me. This is the story of Vidya once without hope or identity, abandoned, a walking disaster—who has emerged from darkness into light.