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	The Hindu : The ironies of Kamathipura
		OF all the places in the world for a television shoot, Kamathipura, Mumbai's infamous red-light area, is probably the most explosive.
		Today, Kamathipura is bursting at the seams with women and garbage.
		In a recent shoot for French television, we shot the Devadasis in Kamathipura with a camera the size of a fountain pen.
	www.hinduonnet.com /thehindu/2001/06/03/stories/1303128f.htm (1375 words)

	Kamathipura in Mumbai India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Kamathipura, the infamous red-light area, is a densely packed slum in the heart of Mumbai.
		Kamathipura derives its name after ‘Kamathis’, a group of workers from Andhra Pradesh who came over to the city from 1795 onwards and made the flat areas rendered livable by the construction of the Hornby Vellard and the Bellasis Road their home.
		Kamathipura epitomizes the shady side of thriving flesh trade and child prostitution that is going on in the otherwise industrious and bustling commercial capital of India.
	www.india9.com /i9show/64347.htm (250 words)

	Press Feature: Growing sex trade a by-product of globalization, young Christians declare
		Outside the dingy shanties of Kamathipura, the sex workers hardly have time for their ragged children as they aggressively woo customers.
		Kamathipura is named after the Kamathis, migrants from the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.
		Brothels mushroom wherever there is high migrant population, although Kamathipura has the distinction of having already been a "comfort zone" back in the British era.
	www2.wcc-coe.org /pressreleasesen.nsf/index/feat-04-01.html (1243 words)

	wfn.org \| WCC: WSF-Youth confront sex trade issues
		Outside the dingy shanties of Kamathipura, the sex workers hardly have time for their ragged children as they aggressively woo customers.
		Kamathipura is named after the Kamathis, migrants from the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.
		But his main concern is: "What about providing an alternative source of income to a community who has known only one source of income?" Leena Vaidya, a social worker who has been working in the area for three years, said they have a definite plan of action to free the women and children.
	www.wfn.org /2004/01/msg00123.html (1014 words)

	Taking the Light of Christ to the darkened dens of Kamathipura \| Christianpost.com
		Kamathipura, Bombay, India., Dec. 20 - Just as the night envelops dusk into its fold, sleazy dance numbers begin to add to the atmosphere, a nauseating tinge.
		Be it trains, or the road from Colaba to VT, Anson would fill his bag with the Gospel tracts, distributing them to the ‘sisters’, the term he chose to express God‘s love to the victims of sex trade.
		He is keen that the darkened lives of Kamathipura need the light of Christ as much as the wicked and sinful men outside their territory.
	www.christianpost.com /article/20031220/1017_Taking_the_Light_of_Christ_to_the_darkened_dens_of_Kamathipura.htm (1347 words)

	Kamathipura at AllExperts
		Kamathipura (also spelled Kamthipura) is Mumbai's oldest and Asia's largest red-light district.
		The area was set up by the British for their troops, which acted as their official "comfort zone".
		Linganna Puttal Pujari (1915-1999), who migrated to Bombay from Nizamabad in Andhra Pradesh in the year 1928), a prominent social worker and city and state legislator, was largely responsible for most of the civic amenities available to the residents of Kamathipura today.
	en.allexperts.com /e/k/ka/kamathipura.htm (310 words)

	Seven brothels raided in Kamathipura
		Twenty minor girls were rescued from seven brothels that were simultaneously raided in the Kamathipura area on Friday night.
		According to the Act any person found trafficking a minor girl could be sentenced anything from seven years to life imprisonment, while a customer found with a minor girl could be charge with statutory rape.
		The raid was conducted with the initiative of Additional Commissioner of Police (Central) Surendra Pandey, under whose jurisdiction Kamathipura lies.
	www.mid-day.com /news/city/2003/november/70075.htm (261 words)

	2003 An. Report (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		That every youth is seen as having capacity and potentials to bring changes within himself and within his immediate surrounding.
		It began as a spontaneous response to the gaps in intervention in the field of street children and has been growing in the last few years.
		Therefore the day care centre for boys at Kamathipura continues its existence and extends its services to children from the age group of 14 to 25 years.
	www.saathi.org /2003_an__report.htm (3852 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Most newspaper readers must have heard about Prakash Phand, the skater from Kamathipura, the enterprising lad who roller skated all over the country in a bid to focus attention on Kamathipura and its orphans.
		Sometimes, events took you to Kamathipura, a popular hunting ground for BBC, Stern and other foreign media, and you came back to work with a different miasma hovering over you.
		At Kamathipura, you had to break into a tightly controlled red-light area fraught with dangers, both real and imagenary.
	www.gunaah.com /drafts/article2.php3?id=4116&name=EDITORIAL&sid=11 (637 words)

	Cents of Relief
		Exploitation shall include, at minimum, the exploitation of the prostitution of others or other forms of sexual exploitation, forced labour or services, slavery or practices similar to slavery, servitude or the removal of organs.
		Prostitution is increasing in India where there have been fears over the spread of AIDS and reports of young girls being abducted and forced into prostitution.
		In Kamathipura brothel district in Bombay more than 70,000 prostituted women and girls are bought by three men a day.
	www.centsofrelief.org /traffick-trade.shtml (282 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Sometimes, events took you to Kamathipura, a favourite locale for BBC, stern and other foreign media, and you came back to work with a different miasma hovering over you.
		The students presumed that this beat was a manifestation of reality and wanted to ‘experience’ it, at least for a day.
		At Kamathipura, you had to break into a tightly controlled red-light area fraught with dangers, both real and imaginary.
	www.gunaah.com /drafts/article2.php3?id=656&name=EDITORIAL&sid=11 (578 words)

	My sister next?
		Apparently, it was just a step away from serving as bhitrini (concubines) and susaaray (maid servants) to the "cages" of the Kamathipura red light district of Bombay.
		Sashi Tamang, a 14 year-old girl rescued from Kamathipura and now living at the Kathmandu shelter home of Maiti Nepal, an NGO providing assistance to women, confirms parental involvement in trafficking.
		The very women who have been trafficked by their parents, or by middle-men (and -women), are more than willing, in the role of brothel managers and gharwalis, to encourage the export of more young women from Sindhupalchowk to Kamathipura and Falkland Road.
	www.himalmag.com /98Oct/sister.htm (1463 words)

	InfoChange India News & Features development news on Children in India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		This is home to over 50 children in the 5-17 age group, all children of commercial sex workers from Mumbai’s Kamathipura.
		“Since the children grow up at Kamathipura without a father-figure, we thought it would be nice to have both ‘parents’ instead of only a mother to look after them,” says Thomas.
		The women of Kamathipura are happy, although they greatly miss their children and are now pressing Navjeevan to allow them monthly visits.
	www.infochangeindia.org /ChildrenIstory.jsp?recordno=177§ion_idv=4 (520 words)

	Cybernoon.com
		Apne Aap, an NGO for the commercial sex workers and their daughters of Kamathipura, is hoping to give the next generation of women a better life
		Sudarshan Loyalka and Manju Vyas had a dream- a dream where women and children would not have to rent their bodies out in order to survive.
		Kamathipura may be still the hell-hole it was eight years back, but the future is warm with hope.
	www.cybernoon.com /DisplayArticle.asp?section=xtras&subsection=bombayfirst&xfile=June2006_extraspecial_standard681&child=extraspecial (563 words)

	Kamathipura raids -- HC orders `surprise check' on home
		MUMBAI, April 23: The Bombay High Court on Thursday ruled that court officials would pay a surprise visit to a home for rescued commercial sex workers, `Kasturba Sadan', to see for themselves the conditions that prevailed there.
		A division bench comprising Chief Justice Y K Sabharwal and Justice S Radhakrishnan gave the ruling on a petition filed by a non-governmental organisation, `Prerna', which works with Kamathipura's commercial sex workers.
		The city police's drive to rescue minor girls from prostitutes' dens in the city has focussed attention on the need to examine rehabilitation programmes, and Prerana's petition points out that all is not well in at least one of the rescue homes, `Kasturba Sadan' in Mankhurd.
	www.expressindia.com /ie/daily/19990424/ige24042.html (291 words)

	Ethnography of prostitution in Kamathipura and Khetwadi sections of Bombay, India.
		Ethnography of prostitution in Kamathipura and Khetwadi sections of Bombay, India.
		OBJECTIVE: To provide the authorities concerned with an ethnographic picture of the situation in Kamathipura and Khetwadi red light areas.
		RESULTS: On the basis of ethnography, inventory and other data a comprehensive plan was developed to tackle Kamathipura and Khetwadi with STD/AIDS prevention/control programme.
	www.aegis.com /aidsline/1993/nov/M93B5745.html (473 words)

	DNA - Mumbai - Mumbai's realtors find red-light areas really hot now - Daily News & Analysis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Kamathipura, Mumbai's oldest red-light district, is dwindling faster than an ice-cube between lovers.
		"Plot size is much larger in Kamathipura than in other parts of Mumbai, which makes it very attractive for property redevelopers," he said.
		According to local sources, some of the popular brothels that have shut down are Parsee Chawl on 14th Lane where an STD booth and general store have come up.
	www.dnaindia.com /report.asp?NewsID=1648 (521 words)

	Condom shortage stalks Kamathipura -- AIDS scare spreads
		NOVEMBER 4: The incidence of AIDS in Mumbai's red-light district is poised to rise exponentially during the Diwali season with a sudden 60 per cent drop in the supply in condoms over the last fortnight.
		Condoms are distributed by the Maharashtra State Aids Control Society to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation and two other intervention projects working in the red-light district to stem the spread of HIV among the high-risk population.
		J V R Prasad Rao, National Aids Control Organisation project director, has written to the Indian Health Organisation, a voluntary organisation working stated that supply of condoms should be resumed immediately.
	www.expressindia.com /ie/daily/19991105/ige05028.html (318 words)

	Money Talk Financial Feeds : Aardvark Business
		She's also a partner in the supermarket business and will soon buy Tata Sumos to rent out.
		Reserve Bank of India (RBI) officials were stunned a few months ago when a group of sex workers from Kamathipura approached them for registering a bank.
		Though the RBI could not grant the request, they were impressed with the commitment and showed them an alternative.
	www.money-talk.org /feeds/detail54.html (669 words)

	LensImpressions: Children of Kamathipura
		Set in the low-lying belly of Bombay, Kamathipura, a maze of gullies and shabby little tenements, is home to over 100,000 prostitutes who struggle to live on the world's most ancient profession.
		Born in a place where human intimacy is just another commercial transaction, the Children of Kamathipura, grow up with a ring-side view of the flesh trade.
		And yet like children everywhere, they laugh, play, and build their childish dreams.
	www.lensimpressions.com /views/200001/200001.html (117 words)

	[No title]
		The girls shelter was located on the first floor of the Municipal school in the area.
		After spending some time at the girls shelter, we took a cab to the boys shelter which is located in the Municipal School in Kamathipura, at one end of the red-light district.
		The boys shelter was located on the ground floor of the municipal school in Kamathipura.
	www.ashanet.org /projects-new/documents/154/sitevisit_2002.txt (2420 words)

	Mean streets-SUNDAY SPECIALS-The Times of India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Many come from Nepal, ending up in Mumbaiâs notorious Kamathipura area, the largest of its kind in the world and home to hundreds of thousands of young women who have been forced into prostitution.
		AIDS rates have soared to nearly 80 per cent in Kamathipura, where condom use is rare and there is precious little education about hygiene or sexually-transmitted diseases.
		Next to the drug and weapon trafficking industry, sexual slavery is the worldâs fastest growing fl market industry, says Levine, and law enforcement is nearly impossible in a neighbourhood where many of the local cops are clients, too.
	timesofindia.indiatimes.com /cms.dll/html/uncomp/articleshow?msid=229390 (700 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta : Nation
		Mumbai, April 2: It feels slightly strange to hear the choicest obscenities in Bengali in a female voice at midnight at the railway station in Kandivli, a predominantly Gujarati suburb on the Western line in Mumbai.
		But some activists feel the Bengalis are far more in number than the Kannadigas, the age-old residents of Kamathipura, Mumbai?s biggest sex district.
		In Kamathipura, a woman wearing a crumpled striped Dhonekhali sari, the anchal draped over her head, sits outside her room around 11 am, slicing rohu fish with a bonthi and shouting at her two sons who are getting into school uniforms, while her husband reads the newspaper on the bed.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1050403/asp/nation/story_4567697.asp (840 words)

	USAID India : Newsroom - Articles - Richard Gere Visits Usaid HIV / AIDS Operation Lighthouse Project In Mumbai
		Hollywood actor Richard Gere walks through Kamathipura, the crowded red light district in the heart of Mumbai city.
		Kamathipura is a red light district in the heart of Mumbai, one of India 's largest cities and home to about 6,000 sex workers.
		USAID has provided a grant to Population Services International (PSI) to 1) educate sex workers about HIV/AIDS to protect them from the virus and 2) disseminate prevention messages to their clientele, which include port workers, truckers and businessmen.
	www.usaid.gov /in/newsroom/articles/richard_gere.htm (363 words)

	Network for Good :: Organization Details
		At an AIDS orphanage in Kamathipura, India, we paid for a part-time doctor to treat the children.
		The local night shelter for young girls (ages 9-14) in Kamathipura, India used our grants to give the girls food and education.
		The latter being very important as these girls remain extremely vulnerable to the commercial-sex trade;only a road separates the shelter from the nearby prostitution.
	www.guidestar.org /pqShowGsReport.do?partner=networkforgood&npoId=100282000 (854 words)

	rediff.com: Shaun Pollock at Kamathipura, Bombay's redlight district (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		rediff.com: Shaun Pollock at Kamathipura, Bombay's redlight district
		The most capped member of his illustrious family, Shaun Maclean Pollock will be the first South African of English stock to become captain after the Proteans returned to international cricket in 1991 when Hansie Cronje retires.
		A possibility that has seemed imminent this season, given the skipper's tempestuous relationship with the South African selectors.
	www.rediff.com /sports/2000/feb/24slid2.htm (62 words)

	India, September 11th, 2001 - Kavita Dorai - Eclectica Magazine v8n1
		It was tacitly understood that Phoolmati had no dreams, and Usmaan was careful not to corrupt her with his own.
		They paid quite handsomely, for without his protection, their cameras would be smashed, and they would be stoned by the denizens of Kamathipura.
		Not just the ones he herded and arranged in a group for her in their fluorescent greens and oranges, posing behind the bars of their cages.
	www.eclectica.org /v8n1/dorai.html (1751 words)

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