A short film that chronicles Calcutta’s rapid transformation into a megalopolis after colonisation, through the unique lens of sex work
The process through which ordinary helpless women and children are drawn into this horrendous organized crime world-over, more prominently in poor countries...
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.
The apex court was hearing a plea that has raised the problems faced by sex workers due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The plea has highlighted the destitution...
For nearly four decades, Priti Patkar has been working with trafficked women in the sex trade and their children in Mumbai’s red-light area, Kamathipura.
Saadat Hasan Manto’s short story ‘Das Rupay’ is the tale of a 15-year-old pushed into the flesh trade by her mother. In his early days in Mumbai, Manto...
