KOLKATA:
A heartbreaking revelation has been brought to light about the Sex
trade in India where thousands of girls in a large town of Kolkata are
forced to sell their bodies for less than $2 a day.
In the Sonagachi shantytown of Kolkata, one of Asia’s largest
red-light areas, estimated 12,000 under 18 girls are forcefully plied
into prostitution on the dangerous streets of notorious Sonagachi Slum
to bring some food for themselves.
This illegal sex trading network is being run by street gangs and sex traffickers for more than a decade, and outsiders including press workers can hardly enter in the slum. State authorities also have not taken any step to change the fortune of these unfortunate girls.
The story was spotlighted by the 21 years old Souvid Datta, London based documentary photographer Indian by origin, who is working on a project ‘Open in the Shadows of KolKata’. He hopes that his project will not likely to affect immediate change or put an end to the sex trade, but give the voice to the voiceless.
The infamous hub of prostitution and crime was also the subject of the 2004 Oscar-winning documentary ‘Born Into Brothels’, which profiled the children of prostitutes living in Sonagachi.
In the Sonagachi shantytown of Kolkata, one of Asia’s largest
red-light areas, estimated 12,000 under 18 girls are forcefully plied
into prostitution on the dangerous streets of notorious Sonagachi Slum
to bring some food for themselves.This illegal sex trading network is being run by street gangs and sex traffickers for more than a decade, and outsiders including press workers can hardly enter in the slum. State authorities also have not taken any step to change the fortune of these unfortunate girls.
The story was spotlighted by the 21 years old Souvid Datta, London based documentary photographer Indian by origin, who is working on a project ‘Open in the Shadows of KolKata’. He hopes that his project will not likely to affect immediate change or put an end to the sex trade, but give the voice to the voiceless.
The infamous hub of prostitution and crime was also the subject of the 2004 Oscar-winning documentary ‘Born Into Brothels’, which profiled the children of prostitutes living in Sonagachi.
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