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Watch: A Video Of A Transgender Folk Dancer’s Unique Gesture Before President At Padma Awards Has Amazed The Netizens

On Monday, Matha B Manjamma Jogati, a transgender folk dancer from Karnataka, was one of the recipients of the Padma awards. Manjamma, a member of the Jogamma family, was awarded the Padma Shri in the field of art for the year 2020. She is the first trans woman president of the Karnataka Janapada Academy, a state-run organization dedicated to folklore preservation and protection. President Ram Nath Kovind claimed in a tweet about Manjamma that she was instrumental in popularizing folk art forms in rural Karnataka, Maharashtra, and sections of Andhra Pradesh. People have | Click Here...