A short film that chronicles Calcutta’s rapid transformation into a megalopolis after colonisation, through the unique lens of sex work
What is International Sex Workers' Day and what does it signify?
While voluntary sex work is legal, running a brothel is illegal in India, as per existing laws covering sex work and human trafficking.
According to the prosecution, the convicts took the girl to India and sold her there to a brothel in 2009.
A press release issued by the Crime Branch said two of the rescued women, including the TV actress, are from Virar near Mumbai, while the third one hails from...
NHRC in 2020 issued an advisory to recognise sex workers as 'registered, informal workers', but later modified the terminology, saying they should be provided...
The parallel world of Sanjay Leela Bhansali, with its aesthetically-lit windows and luxurious sentimentality that glows in the yellow fairy lights, doesn’t...
This poem appeared in Namdeo Dhasal’s 1981 Marathi collection, 'Tuhi Iyatta Kanchi' (What Grade Are You In), later translated to English by Dilip Chitre, and...
Never known for originality or verisimilitude, Bollywood scriptwriters trawl the absolute depths when creating on-screen prostitutes, in search of lucre
Very few Indian directors have handled the subject of sex workers sensitively. Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Gangubai is an exception.
Multiple factors including the law have made it impossible to collectivise the women in the locality
Plans to revive Mumbai’s infamous locality of Kamathipura have remained, at best, a dream for its residents
An ambitious redevelopment plan is being readied for Kamathipura, whose lanes had seen a thriving sex trade. Forced out of the area, the sex workers will lose...
'There’s more hardship in sex work. The tawaif wants just a little bit of izzat, which the sex worker is denied to even dream about.'
