Angel (white) and Navya (brown tee) with Nani and ‘family’ in Malwani. Pic/ Sayed Sameer Abedi

Navnath Sawant and Ajay Pujari, both 20, identify as transgender. From the time they were in school, they knew they identified as women. Ridiculed by classmates and humiliated by their families, they have journeyed from being Ajay and Navnath to Angel and Navya, with the hijras of Malwani becoming their new family.