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Bhubaneswar: The excise department has served showcause notices to five dance bars in the city for allegedly allowing inebriated customers to shower m.

Biswas was attending a workshop run by Sri Lanka-born British author Romesh Gunesekera, who was once shortlisted for the Booker Prize, when she started writing this book

The varied trajectories of Bengali cabaret/bar dancers who ferried themselves between the two cities of Mumbai and Kolkata in search of livelihood and shelter since the last decades of the 20th century are mapped. Taking Kolkata as the epicentre of research, the author proposes to trace the eviction drive of the city’s erotic dancers ascribing their large-scale exodus to the

This paper considers the dance and activist labour of a group of cis- and transgendered performers who lobby for the decrimininalisation of sex work in India. Known as Komal Gandhar, the group operate out of Sonagachi, Kolkata and are the cultural wing of the Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee, a collective of over 65,000 sex workers. Based on in-depth interviews with Komal

Last June, the Maharashtra government had restored the ban on dance bars.

Bans and Bar Girls: Performing Caste in Mumbai’s Dance Bars by Sameena Dalwai, published by Women Unlimited (an associate of Kali for Women), New Delhi, 2019; pp 242, `595 (hardcover).

With Sonia Faleiro, Esther Freud, Gwendoline Riley and Shyama Perera This is an online event hosted on the British Library platform. Bookers are sent a link in advance giving access and can watch at any time for 48 hours after the start time. The bond between mothers and daughters is explored afresh by a panel of celebrated authors whose new works illuminate this relationship and its framing in society.   Gwendoline Riley is the author of My Phantoms, as well as First Love, which was short...

Dont show me this message again✕ Indian police keep watch at the tree where the bodies of the victims were found hanging, in Budaun district, Uttar Pradesh (AFP/Getty) t’s a shocking image: two young girls, skinny teenagers in brightly coloured salwar kameez, hang from opposite branches of a tall mango tree, suspended from their necks by their own pink and green dupattas. Their eyes are closed. Their heads, bent by gravity, appear bowed in reverence towards one another. Sari-clad women s...

Updated: February 28, 2021 08:43 IST Digging into the 2014 Badaun rape and murder case, Sonia Faleiro found a different story altogether, a story that predates the victims’ lives Share Article AAA Digging into the 2014 Badaun rape and murder case, Sonia Faleiro found a different story altogether, a story that predates the victims’ lives Goa-born, London-based author and journalist Sonia Faleiro is out with her second book of reportage, The Good Girls: An Ordinary Killing, which was release...

She was in London when she saw the image of the hanging children, aged 16 and 14, circulating on Twitter. Though she had planned to write a book about the wave of sexual violence, seeing that visual of two teenage girls -- Padma and Lalli who ...