As a resident of Kolkata, I always knew that Sonagachi in north Kolkata has the largest red light area in Asia. But, in my mind it existed only as a concept, a myth almost. Little did I know what it ...

Kolkata: Hundreds of Amid SIR fears, Sonagachi sex workers throng EC camps; CEO promises no eligible voter to be excluded, Asia's largest red-light district, thronged EC assistance camps on Tuesday, ...

The office of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) of West Bengal will organise special camps in Sonagachi red light area of Kolkata on Tuesday to assist sex workers in filling up the Enumeration Forms ...

Caught in rising fear and uncertainty over the ongoing SIR of electoral rolls, sex workers in Kolkata's Sonagachi area are likely to get a special assistance camp, as the Election Commission prepares ...

Anita Das, now 47, was lured from her home in West Bengal’s Nadia district in her 20s with the promise of a job. Like many other women, she came to the red light area of north Kolkata’s Sonagachi in ...

Caught in rising fear and uncertainty over the ongoing SIR of electoral rolls, sex workers in Kolkata's Sonagachi area are likely to get a special assistance camp, as the Election Commission prepares ...

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 ...

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 ...

Kolkata: Caught in rising fear and uncertainty over the ongoing SIR of electoral rolls, sex workers in Kolkata's Sonagachi area are likely to get a special assistance camp, as the Election Commission ...

Gripped by fear and confusion over the Special Intensive Revision process, sex workers in Sonagachi, Asia's largest red-light district, have written to the state's chief electoral officer, pleading ...

There are a total of 12,000 sex workers at West Bengal's Sonagachi brothel Sex workers in Kolkata's Sonagachi area are urging the government to include their names in the voter list as the Special ...