3. Modern India’s Tryst with Prostitution
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This episode 3 tracks the mainstream discourses around prostitution and the sex worker movement.
Credits:
Host: Surabhi Chatterjee.
Audio production: Pruthu Parab.
Cover Art: Rini Alphonsa Joseph
Music: The intro music is Wake up, Max by Axel Lundström. Music is from YouTube audio library and includes: Don’t Fret–Quincas Moreria; Raga Legacy, Rains of Meghalaya, Old World Saga-Hanu Dixit; Crash & Burn, Shake it-Aakash Gandhi; Fingerprint-Mini Vandals; Basant, Bhairavi–Sitarkhani–Aditya Verma.
Sources:
Sai Priya Kodidala An early 20th century tale of censorship: How Bangalore Nagarathnamma fought social norms to revive the legacy of Muddupalani.
Further Reading: Davesh Soneji, "Unfinished Gestures".
Essays by Rekha Pande, Geetanjali Gangoli, Anagha Tambe, Swati Ghosh in 'Prostitution and Beyond';
Gaurav Jain V. UOI (1997) 8 SCC 114.
Mohandas Namishray, “Who was revolutionary Dalit Poet Namdeo Dhasal really?"; Dilip Chitre, “Poet of the Underworld”;
Yogesh Maitreya “Namdeo Dhasal’s New Language”;
An interview with Namdeo Dhasal, “reconstructed by Dilip Chitre from an interview with Namdeo Dhasal by Marathi poets Satish Kaleskar and Pradnya Lockhande”;
Unnati Sharma, “Poet & Dalit Panther Namdeo Dhasal’s poetry embraced those discarded by society”.
DMSC, Sex Workers’ Manifesto.
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