Dr Piyush Saxena is a corporate professional, a naturopath, wellness counsellor, magician, thinker, writer, film director and also an actor. Above all he is a human being considerate to fellow human beings. As chairperson of ‘Salvation Of Oppressed Eunuchs’, he is pioneer in working for the cause of eunuchs and assisting them to integrate into mainstream society.
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A computer decision support systems analyst by profession, he is also the Chairperson of Social Institute Program for Rural Area (SIPRA), a Non-Government Organisation that is engaged in the provision of proper education, health, habitat and sanitation for the poor of rural areas. With his broad knowledge of civil rights, he joined this group of likeminded people to work for the upliftment of the eunuch community.

A diploma holder in electronics engineering seeking a change from the routine, he followed the dictates of his heart and gravitated to Mass Media, which is considered to be a tool of change. Working as a health journalist, he discovered the fact that contrary to the common mans perception, modern medical practices are not as good as they are made to be.

He has been closely associated with Transgender Community. A Tamilian by birth, he has witnessed eunuchs getting much respect in his home state. However, the condition of eunuchs in most other parts of India is pathetic, to say the least. It pained him to no end that the very people who bless us are living a cursed life themselves.

Heena & Shakira are ‘Maa Pet’ hijras, i.e. born eunuchs. ‘Only the wearer knows where the shoe pinches’ may be an oft quoted cliché but nowhere is this more amply and forcefully demonstrated that in their case. They have felt the unbearable and socially ignored pain of being eunuchs and they cast their lot with SOOE, to act as someone who will hold a mirror to the face of society.