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An 18-day-long festival celebrated in Tamil Nadu’s Koovagam village and attended by transgender devotees from across the country comes to an end. Each year during the full moon of the Tamil month of Chitrai, devotees gather to participate in the re-enactment of a tale from Mahabharata, that of Aravan and Mohini’s marriage. The devotees become brides of Aravan for one day in a symbolic wedding with the Koothandavar temple priest. The following day they mourn the death of their husband Aravan, just as Krishna did in Mohini’s form, becoming his widows.