Sex Workers Of Kamathipura: Nowhere To Go, Nowhere To Live

Multiple factors including the law have made it impossible to collectivise the women in
the locality

Kamathipura is suddenly in the limelight because of Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Gangubai Kathiawadi, an attempt to depict sex workers living here in the 1960s. However, the red-light district today is no longer home to sex workers. The women and children were forcibly driven out over two decades due to a combination of factors ranging from abolitionists under the guise of anti-trafficking measures to local non sex work residents who want to ‘cleanse’ the area of the stigma associated to its generations of sex work.

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