LetÂ’s say that youÂ’ve just had a brutal argument with your wife. SheÂ’s always giving you the business about something: You spend too much time with your friends…you ought to spend more time with the kids…you need to spend less time with your mistress…and so on. After a fight with his wife, an unemployed man in Uttar Pradesh had just about enough. He flew the coop, and returned two years later with the ultimate retort:
During his absence, he got himself castrated and became a eunuch, earning money by singing and dancing, a common form of employment among IndiaÂ’s ostracized community of eunuchs. “I was always fond of singing and dancing, but felt suffocated in my body as a man,” Nabiullah was quoted as saying. His wife, Shama Parveen, fainted when he returned home late last month… [Reuters/Yahoo!]
I remember visiting India as a youngster, and while sitting on the front porch, someone looking like the ugliest woman I have ever seen started singing and clapping. Not knowing what was going on I just sat there and watched…until this person became angry for some reason and starte lifting their skirt to show me their private parts. At which point I ran back and yelled for one of my grandparents, who gave this person money or food, don’t remember. Who knew years later that Apul would traumatize me again…you bastard 😛