Manipur’s all-trans football team boots out stigma

Five episodes into a recently released docuseries in which Oprah Winfrey and Prince Harry team up to probe mental health issues of celebrated stars like Lady Gaga, Glenn Close, Ginny Fuch and others — the frame suddenly shifts to the hilly tracts of Manipur with a 30- year-old Sadam Hanjabam quietly piercing the narrative. The camera follows Hanjabam as he walks around a lane in Imphal recounting a rainy evening some years ago when he was out on a date with a man and was accosted by a police jeep.