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  2. Vintage photos offer rare glimpse of Mumbai’s 1970s red-light ...

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    Vintage photos offer rare glimpse of Mumbai’s 1970s red-light district. Christy Choi, CNN. January 4, 2024 at 7:54 PM ... Falkland Road, meanwhile, continues to be a red-light district, but the ...

  3. Kamathipura - Wikipedia

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    Kamathipura area in map of Mumbai, 1924. Before the completion of the Hornby Vellard project in 1784, which built a causeway uniting all seven islands of Mumbai under William Hornby, governor of Bombay (1771–1784), plugged the Great Breach in Mahalaxmi, while the subsequent Bellasis Road causeway joined Mazagaon and Malabar Hill in 1793.

  4. Gangubai Kothewali - Wikipedia

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    Gangubai Harjeevandas (1928 – 8 September 1977), [a] better known as Gangubai Kothewali [3] [b] or Gangubai Kathiawadi, [3] [c] was an Indian social activist, sex worker and madam of a brothel in the Kamathipura area of Mumbai during the 1960s. Gangubai worked for the rights of sex workers and for the well-being of orphans. [5]

  5. List of red-light districts - Wikipedia

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    Manningham – the red light district is situated around Lumb Lane and Manningham Lane and was featured in the TV series Band of Gold. [251] Huddersfield. Great Northern Street [252] Leeds. Chapeltown – the traditional red light-area was around the Spencer Place and Avenue Hill streets. This has diminished in importance since the emergence of ...

  6. Prostitution in Mumbai - Wikipedia

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    Mumbai (formerly known as Bombay), is a city in India which contains the neighborhood of Kamathipura, one of the largest red-light districts in Asia. India is regarded as having one of the largest commercial sex trades globally. [1] These neighborhoods are so large and popular that Mumbai has been called the "ultimate destination" for sex ...

  7. Red-light district - Wikipedia

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    A red-light district or pleasure district is a part of an urban area where a concentration of prostitution and sex-oriented businesses, such as sex shops, strip clubs, and adult theaters, are found. In most cases, red-light districts are particularly associated with female street prostitution , though in some cities, these areas may coincide ...

  8. Gangubai Kathiawadi - Wikipedia

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    Gangubai Kathiawadi is a 2022 Indian Hindi-language biographical crime drama film directed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali and produced by Bhansali and Jayantilal Gada.Based on the book Mafia Queens of Mumbai by S. Hussain Zaidi, it tells the story of Gangubai Kathiawadi, a simple girl from Kathiawad who is forced into prostitution and later rises to become a madam and an influential figure in Bombay ...

  9. Prerana - Wikipedia

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    The ESP provides complementary and remedial education, extra-curricular activities, life skills education, and personal development inputs. The ESP also sponsors older children for vocational training programs. Prerana runs 3 ESPs in the Mumbai red light districts of Kamathipura and Falkland Road and Vashi Turbhe in Navi Mumbai. [16]