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Behind Kamathipura's Closed Doors

Behind Kamathipura's Closed Doors

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·September 9, 2025

srean

I highly recommend the movie, Born into Brothels [0]. It's set in Sonagachi, in some sense the analogue of Kamathipura in Calcutta.

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...

[0] https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0388789/