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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.