Kolkata: Stigmatised but not afraid to hone and sport their talents, a music band led by children of Sonagachi sex workers is here to reach out to the masses this Durga Puja, courtesy their maiden ...

The sex workers of Sonagachi, Kolkata’s largest red-light district, have decided not to provide soil for Durga idols this year, marking a protest against the ongoing violence and injustice faced by ...

Step by step: A practice session at Komol Gandhar, the cultural initiative of the Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee sex workers collective in Kolkata. Photo: Indranil Bhoumik/Mint For what is ...

Stigmatised but not afraid to hone and sport their talents, a music band led by children of Sonagachi sex workers is here to reach out to the masses this Durga Puja, courtesy their maiden album that ...

For the children of Sonagachi, it’s not just growing up in the shadow of their mothers’ clients they struggle with – but the risk that they will be forcefully trafficked into the sex trade themselves.

Sonagachi, India – The entrance to one of Asia’s largest red-light districts is filled with hordes of young men washing themselves at water taps on the roadside. They stare as 39-year-old Geetha Das, ...

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 ...

Sex workers of Sonagachi in the city, considered Asia's largest red light area, will launch an awareness campaign against drug use among customers. Sex workers of Sonagachi in the city, considered ...

During the day, this is just another street in Kolkata. Men soap their bodies in a public bath. A juice vendor slices through a watermelon. A chaiwallah pours tea into clay kulhars. Women in ...

In the warren of alleys, the sun struggles to break through the canopy of decrepit houses standing so close that there’s no room for a rat to escape a pursuing cat. That‘s Sonagachi—a two-century-old ...

One of India’s most successful HIV interventions is currently facing a policy glitch it cannot easily overcome: love affairs. In Sonagachi, the largest red-light district of South Asia, in the heart ...