Empowered by the landmark RTI Act, workers of India’s largest red-light district call the administration to account for its general apathy The women of Sonagachi — one of Asia’s largest red-light ...

Every time her mother brings a man home, little Pinky picks up her infant sister and goes out to play in the grimy lanes of Kolkata's rundown red light district. Kolkata (Reuters) Every time her ...

There is something acutely poignant about the image of an ambitious mother grooming her daughter for her first night which she hopes will be the beginning of a successful career in sex. It is through ...

2019/04/30: Sex Workers of Sonagachi take part in a torch rally with a demand of dignity, Labor Right & Social Protection on the eve of International Labor Day. (Photo by Avishek Das/SOPA ...

If bad news travels fast, good news certainly doesn't. In recent years, the Durbar Mahila Samannay Committee (dmsc) has brought about major improvements in the lives of Bengal's sex workers. Yet, most ...

KOLKATA: The ripples of unrest raging across Nepal have travelled nearly 800 km south to Kolkata's Sonagachi, Asia's largest red-light district, where Nepalese sex workers are unable to get in touch ...

SONAGACHI in Kolkata wears indulgence without apology or remorse. Thin lanes stretch like veins in a 300-year-old district. It makes a single statement — freedom has to be seized for it’s the only ...

Kolkata: One of Asia's largest red light districts, Sonagachi will next month roll out an experimental project for providing HIV-preventive medicine to sex workers in what will be the first such ...

Kolkata: The sex workers of Sonagachi in the city, Asia's largest red light area, would don the chef's cap this Durga Puja at the various food pavilions run by the West Bengal fisheries department.

Every evening, her house echoes the murmur of children reciting maths tables or pondering over which colours to use for their drawings. These are children of sex workers, who come to the house on on ...