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Gummaraju was among those from the community he consulted to seek information. He stated that Vidya Dinakaran, a psychotherapist, and Haldar Gummaraju became his “gurus” and “pulled (him) out of darkness.” In a report filed to the court by Haldar
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155:. She lived as a boy for the first 20 years of her life. Her father Suresh Gummaraju is an engineer, her mother Haima Haldar is an architect, and she has a younger brother Agastya Gummaraju who is a Computer Science engineer. Dr Trinetra completed
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