Mumbai Red Light Area

DMK leader RS Bharathi on Monday expressed regret for his comments comparing media houses to red light areas in Mumbai. He waded into a controversy by likening TV media houses and journalists to prostitution hubs, alleging fraud and money was their primary concern.

"Growing up, I faced a lot of discrimination," says a Mumbai woman on the Humans of Bombay Facebook page. "I had everything going against me - a dark skinned Indian girl from a red light area," she explains. However, this woman's interpretation of beauty, life and the place she calls home is beyond inspiring.

An Indian teacher who runs a not-for-profit school in Mumbai for girls from the city's red light areas was on Wednesday named in the top 10 short-list for a global prize for teachers.

Residents of Mumbai's Kamathipura, considered Asia's largest red light district, have mounted a campaign to place a curb on the sex trade in the area. Sex workers however have expressed helplessness, even as activists claim the move would only open up the area to property developers.

Her photo accompanies her short blog; her name does not. She has been the focus of media attention for her earlier accomplishments, some of which she refers to on Facebook.

Since January 5, a 23-year-old software engineer from Hyderabad, who had arrived in Mumbai to resume work after her Christmas break, has been missing

An unsuspecting woman on the verge of being thrust head-long into a life of prostitution found unexpected and unlikely saviours in the form of Commercial Sex Workers (CSW) in Mumbai's oldest red-light area, Kamathipura. Their presence of mind and compassion resulted in the arrest of a human trafficker, who was trying to sell off his new bride to a ...

In the second phase of the Census, some of the city's teachers entrusted with collecting data for the exhaustive unique identification project had the task of enumerating the residents of Kamathipura, the largest red-light area in the world. The experience did not elicit an encore from them, as became obvious from their accounts.The teachers, quite...

In an incident that has left its eyewitnesses shell shocked, a man stabbed a prostitute to death, and followed it by stabbing himself to death as well. At 9.30 last night, a man, later identified as Pandurang, ventured into the red light area of VP Road in south Mumbai, looking for a prostitute. He stumbled upon the door of Laxmi Kamble. Follo...

DMK leader RS Bharathi on Monday expressed regret for his comments comparing media houses to red light areas in Mumbai. He waded into a controversy by likening TV media houses and journalists to prostitution hubs, alleging fraud and money was their primary concern.

"Growing up, I faced a lot of discrimination," says a Mumbai woman on the Humans of Bombay Facebook page. "I had everything going against me - a dark skinned Indian girl from a red light area," she explains. However, this woman's interpretation of beauty, life and the place she calls home is beyond inspiring.

An Indian teacher who runs a not-for-profit school in Mumbai for girls from the city's red light areas was on Wednesday named in the top 10 short-list for a global prize for teachers.

Residents of Mumbai's Kamathipura, considered Asia's largest red light district, have mounted a campaign to place a curb on the sex trade in the area. Sex workers however have expressed helplessness, even as activists claim the move would only open up the area to property developers.

Her photo accompanies her short blog; her name does not. She has been the focus of media attention for her earlier accomplishments, some of which she refers to on Facebook.

Since January 5, a 23-year-old software engineer from Hyderabad, who had arrived in Mumbai to resume work after her Christmas break, has been missing

An unsuspecting woman on the verge of being thrust head-long into a life of prostitution found unexpected and unlikely saviours in the form of Commercial Sex Workers (CSW) in Mumbai's oldest red-light area, Kamathipura. Their presence of mind and compassion resulted in the arrest of a human trafficker, who was trying to sell off his new bride to a ...

In the second phase of the Census, some of the city's teachers entrusted with collecting data for the exhaustive unique identification project had the task of enumerating the residents of Kamathipura, the largest red-light area in the world. The experience did not elicit an encore from them, as became obvious from their accounts.The teachers, quite...

In an incident that has left its eyewitnesses shell shocked, a man stabbed a prostitute to death, and followed it by stabbing himself to death as well. At 9.30 last night, a man, later identified as Pandurang, ventured into the red light area of VP Road in south Mumbai, looking for a prostitute. He stumbled upon the door of Laxmi Kamble. Follo...