By nandan on March 25, 2009
I experienced something really wild in Kolkata, maybe it was the wildest experience of my life. There is a Kali temple in Kolkata which is one the 52 Shaktipeeths and is one of the most important temples for Hindus. According to Hindu mythology when Parvati died, Lord Shiva became so angry that he put her body [...]
Posted in Travel | Tagged hindu, hindu temples, kali temple, kolkata
By nandan on March 20, 2009
There were a lot of hijras and transgenders also. There was a group of children of sex workers who were going to lead the rally with music and dance. I really liked this idea of having some music and dance also. The rally started around 7 o’clock and I think there were about 5000 people [...]
Posted in Business, Women in pain | Tagged prostitution india, sex work india, sonagachi
By nandan on March 15, 2009
So it used to be really hard for them to open a bank account. They were never ever able to save the money. Their savings were often looted, sometimes by the brothel owner and sometimes by their clients. Durbar wanted them to start saving and to do this they asked the Indian government and a [...]
Posted in Business | Tagged documentary shooting india, production work india, prostitution india, sex work india, sonagachi
By nandan on March 10, 2009
Seranna was sad to see how poor Indian sex workers are. She said that western sex workers make a lot of money. She charges $300 per hour which is like two-three months salary of an Indian sex worker. She wanted to talk about how sex workers can make more money from their clients. I know [...]
Posted in Business, HIV and AIDS | Tagged condom usage demonstration, prostitution india, sex work in India, sex workers india
By nandan on March 8, 2009
We interviewed a few sex workers in Kolkata for the documentary and fortunately my job was to do interpretation between sex workers and Seranna so I talked to them personally. I noticed one thing was that most of the sex workers we talked to came in this profession after some kind of bad thing happened [...]
Posted in Business, HIV and AIDS | Tagged sex work in India, sex workers in India, sonagachi
By nandan on March 5, 2009
Laxmi (a transgender) and Seranna
Seranna started her documentary called Comparing Countries Compassion in Kolkata which is about sex work and sex workers in India. It is Seranna’s project which she will be doing in different countries but she wanted to start it from India. She has chosen me to help her organizing interviews and she wants to interview me [...]
Posted in Business, HIV and AIDS | Tagged documentary shooting india, production work india, sex work in India