Ninety Hours of Desire: Labour identity and the ninety hour work week debate between a transgender solopreneur and a corporate CMD

<p>Kamala a transgender water-distributor from suburban Chennai boards the Vande Bharat Express with a valid ticket and a quiet need for rest. Beside her sits CMD a corporate titan under fire for glorifying the 90-hour work week.</p><p>What begins as awkward silence unfolds into a charged intimate reckoning of labour dignity and the cost of ambition.</p><p>Ninety Hours of Desire is a collision of two Indias: one that builds and one that sustains. It is a collision between cracked wells and glass boardrooms between mockery and ovation between the seen and the unseen. It reframes work ethic and work-life balance dismantles corporate theatre and reveals how dignity and quiet rebellion can flourish in the margins of a hyper-structured unequal society.</p><p>Kamala wearing only a lungi and pale-yellow T-shirt an attire she wore with reluctance which became her armour for five decades speaks from the podium or a large corporate conference hall</p><p>&ldquo;Difference and diversity aren&rsquo;t the same. Difference lives in the mind. Diversity lives in nature. Where you see only difference you find conflict. But when you see diversity you celebrate. If you&rsquo;ve seen our commonalities and our shared stretch marks then let me say thank you for accepting me not just as different but as human.&rdquo;</p><p>If you&rsquo;ve ever felt alone unseen unheard or uninvited this story doesn&rsquo;t just speak to you. It walks beside you.</p><p>The book has been submitted for the &ldquo;Best Indie Book Award&rdquo; under the LGBTQ category.</p>