Behind Kamathipura's Closed Doors
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The article 'Behind Kamathipura's Closed Doors' explores the lives of sex workers in Kamathipura, and the discussion touches on the differences between Kamathipura and Sonagachi, another red-light district in India where sex workers are self-organized and unionized.
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Crumbling concrete congestion aside Sonagachi is quite different. Here sex workers are self organized, have a political voice and are unionised. The latest form of which is
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durbar_Mahila_Samanwaya_Comm...
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