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What Kamathipura means today
By: Svati P Shah
Do those who want to rescue sex workers from brothels ask what their targets think?
The feminist and the sex worker: Lessons from the Indian experience
By: Srilatha Batliwala
Despite decades of tension between feminists and sex workers, it is finally becoming clear that the former has much to learn from the latter.
Sex and the pity
By: Meena Saraswathi Seshu
The stigmatisation of sex workers stems from misconceptions and squeamishness about sex.
Legislating morality
By: Rakesh Shukla
References to 'prostitution' in the legislation of Southasian countries exposes told-world mentality about this 'immoral' arena.
Like any other woman
By: Jayasree A K
Interview with Nalini Jameela.
Four lives
By: Kaveri Rajaraman
The Karnataka Sex Workers’ Union is fostering a sense of community among members as they struggle for personal, social, legal security.
Strings attached
By: Oishik Sircar & Debolina Dutta
Paranoia and moralistic attitudes towards sex work and HIV/AIDS have hurt both the interests of sex workers & efforts to tackle HIV.
My candle burns at both ends
By: Raza Rumi
Southasian fiction has provided many insights into the persona and conflicts of the exploited-empowered dancing girl.
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The feminist and the sex worker: Lessons from the Indian experience
Despite decades of tension between feminists and sex workers, it is finally becoming clear that the forme...
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| Graffiti that reads Azaadi or Freedom on the footbridge over River Jhelum in Srinagar. Dilnaz Boga |
The Kashmiri and the Indian by Shivam Vij
People-to-people dialogue is the best way out of the Kashmir logjam.
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| The battle for bauxite – Sudha Ramachandran writes about the Dongria Kondhs of southern Orissa who are up in arms on the grounds that their land, culture and way of life, their very survival as a distinct tribe, is under serious threat from UK mining giant Vedanta Resources. |
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| Delayed transit – Saad Hammadi on the Nepal-Bangladesh transit trade agreement, the modalities of which have finally been worked out between the two countries. What remains to be seen now is how soon these agreements will be implemented. |
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