Wednesday, 14 October 2009        Portraits of hijras.   Adam
Roberts said...  Any relation to 'kedgeree' ('khichri' in Hindi,
according to my Hobson-Jobson), which is after all a kind of
mixture or mess of foodstuffs cooked together?  goofy said...  I
looked up "kedgeree" a while ago, and all I could find it that
it came from Sanskrit for "dish of rice and sesamum". It's
probably not related. Whether I can trace kedgeree to another
English word remains to be seen.  Glen Gordon said...  It's
still a sad social commentary that hijra would come from a word
meaning 'coward'. The real cowards are the ones who are so
psychotically obsessed with interfering in other people's
personal identity. I never understood these sorts, always
imposing their morals on things that have absolutely nothing to
do with them. (... Or maybe they do? Sssssshhhhh! I know
something that you don't know about The Crying Game. Sing it
loud, Georgey. Lol.)  On a related note, I wrote in 2007 about
Babylonian sexuality and found some of thei