

He helps her later after she is arrested in Kashmir using his influence as a senior officer in Information Bureau. He is smitten by her but is wary of her personality. He was the part of college theatre group in which Tilo and Musa acted. After his wife and daughter are killed in a gunfire by army, he disappears and works as a terrorist. Musa was sent by his father to study architecture so as to avoid him being dragged in the Kashmir insurgency of 90s. She finds solace in Musa, with whom she could relate as both were odd in their Delhi group of theatre actors. After being treated as an adoptive child from her biological mother, she grows distant of people in general. Tilo was a love child of a high-caste Syrian Christian mother and a low-caste man her mother fell in love with. He works a number of jobs all of which include petty cheating. He changes his name to Saddam Hussein, after seeing the manner of defiance of the Iraqi dictator at the time of his death in a video. He witnesses his father beign killed by a communal mob when a corrupt police inspector implicates his father in killing a cow, an unholy act for Hindus. Saddam, a low-caste man, whose family occupation was to collect cow carcasses since high-caste Hindus won't touch them and use the carcasses to make leather. She grows distant from Anjum when she tries to dress Zainab as a boy to save her from communal rioters Saddam Hussein She is an animal lover and studies fashion designing. She is the adoptive daughter of Anjum who she found near Jama Masjid where her parents deserted her.

She adopts two girls later and is fiercely jealous of everyone who acts as a mother to them. She is deeply traumatized after the Gujrat riots of 2001, and begins to dress like a man for a while. After being accepted into the hijra community, she has her penis removed surgically. We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own.īorn with both male and female organs, Aftab is effeminate and is mesmerized by a hijra, trans-gender he sees on a street. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community.
