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PLUS has recently conducted a situational assessment study with the support of UNDP India Country office. The study was conducted among 400 respondents from areas in almost twenty-two districts in three respective states of West Bengal, Bihar, and Uttar Pradesh. The primary respondents are young gender variant boys of feminine demeanor are mostly from West Bengal belonging mainly in the average age group of 15 to 25 years who migrate to Bihar and Uttar Pradesh for performing traditional culture. They are called 'launda dancers'. The laundas of Bihar And UP define and spice up the entertainment barometer at the marriages in the Hindi heartland. But deep within they nurse broken hearts and bruised bodies. They are the young torch bearers of an age-old popular tradition upholders of the launda naach, an integral part of the weddings in northern India, especially Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, where weddings are elaborate affairs with a rustic dose of merrymaking, Here young effeminate boys dance in marriage procession and ceremonies, dressed in women's clothing. Often live-in laundas end up becoming unpaid slaves, doing menial household chores, including looking after their employer's children. Thus he not only Traditionalist may proudly declare how the dance parties of Bihar and UP are keeping alive in age old tradition through the launda naach ceremonies, hard facts call for urgent intervention and rehabilitation of these talented young impressionable boys who risk daily humiliation and even death, while providing casual moments of cheap entertainment. Further information
drinking, music and dance.
becomes his owner's sex slave but also has to entertain his friends. However after some years of providing constant physical gratification and sexual service when they lose or fall prey to some sexually transmitted disease, they are cast away.
pdf: http://www.crin.org/docs/dancing boy.pdf