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The Sonagachi project is a sex workers' cooperative that operates in the area and empowers sex workers to insist on condom use and to stand up against abuse. Run by the Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee , it was founded by public health scientist Smarajit Jana in 1992 but is now largely run by the prostitutes themselves.
Kolkata — the skyline across the Maidan A satellite image of Kolkata showing land usage The Prinsep Ghat which is located on the bank of the Hoogly River. Spread roughly north–south along the east bank of the Hooghly River, Kolkata sits within the lower Ganges Delta of eastern India; the city's elevation is 1.5–9 m (5–30 ft). [6]
The Palace of Truth is a three-act blank verse "Fairy Comedy" by the English dramatist W. S. Gilbert. First produced at the Haymarket Theatre in London on 19 November 1870, the plot was adapted in significant part from Madame de Genlis's fairy story Le Palais de Vérite. It was the first of several such plays that Gilbert wrote founded upon the ...
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Although the word "Sonagachi" translates easily into "Golden Tree" in Bangla; most probably the name of the red light district in Kolkata (India) is derived from "Sona Gazi" a person whose "mazar" or grave is present at the end of one of the lanes that runs through the district.Amitrajit 11:32, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
Chowringhee in 1798. In the seventeenth century or prior to it, the area now occupied by the Maidan and Esplanade was a tiger-infested jungle. At the eastern end of it was an old road, which had once been built by the Sabarna Roy Choudhury family from Barisha to Halisahar.
G: Street Level Exit/ Entrance M: Mezzanine Fare control, station agent, Ticket/token, shops P: Platform 2 Southbound: Towards → Kavi Subhash next station is Girish Park: Island platform | Doors will open on the right
Sheths and Basaks, well-to-do traders at Saptagram, were among the first to settle in Sutanuti and are said to have cleared much of the jungles in the area. Neighbouring Shyambazar was named after the family deity of the Basaks, Shyam Roy (or Gobinda), the attendant of goddess Kali by Shobharam Basak, one of the richest native inhabitants of 18th-century Kolkata.