PRAYAGRAJ, Feb. 6 -- Often sidelined and struggling to find platforms to showcase their creativity, dozens of transgender artists are set to showcase pieces of art and craft created by them in an exhibition at the camp of Kinnar Akhada, a monastic order of transgender sadhus, located in sector 16 of the Mahakumbh-2025 mela area.

Here visitors including pilgrims, tourists and even sadhus will be able to explore and purchase handmade items, including jewellery, art pieces, textiles and paintings, that reflect the cultural heritage of the Kinnar community.

The exhibition, to be organised under the aegis of Kinnar Akhada head Acharya Mahamandaleshwar Laxmi Narayan Tripathi, will be offering a platform for transgender artists to showcase the...