"Taxi Ride" Photographer: Gour, 16 Living at home with his mohter, Gour hopes to go to college someday. "I want to show in pictures how people live in this city," Gour says in the book Born into ...

3 women arrested in Kolkata red light area for confining man, extorting ₹89k online ...

Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], November 16 (ANI): Sex workers in Kolkata's Sonagachi area are urging the government to include their names in the voter list as the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) ...

“Only rights can stop the wrong,” reads a poster inside the community centre at the Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee (DMSC) office in Sonagachi, Kolkata, West Bengal’s capital. The poster dates back ...

Tamil Nadu: Motorists battle near zero visibility in Chengalpattu due to thick fog ...

In the labyrinth of Sonagachi, Asia’s largest red-light district in north Kolkata where shadows often speak louder than light, a new story is being written this Durga Puja—by the children of sex ...

Kolkata’s Sonagachi area may soon host a special assistance camp for sex workers, as the Election Commission prepares to address unique documentation challenges arising from the ongoing Special ...

Of the 8,000-odd sex workers of Sonagachi, many have no connection with their parents for decades and are not in a position to get documents from them.

Amid the ongoing SIR of electoral rolls in West Bengal, sex workers in Kolkata's Sonagachi area, one of the largest red light districts in Asia, held a preliminary meeting among themselves to know ...

KOLKATA: The ripples of unrest raging across Nepal have travelled nearly 800 km south to Kolkata's Sonagachi, Asia's largest red-light district, where Nepalese sex workers are unable to get in touch ...

A senior official in the Chief Electoral Officer's (CEO) office told PTI that the commission has taken note of the concerns after multiple organisations pointed out that many sex workers at Asia's ...

One of the largest red-light areas in Kolkata’s Sonagachi, with over 12,000 sex workers, celebrates the 13th edition of their Durga Pujas. Started in 2013, the women of the area erupted in joy as MLA ...