Tamang girls have been victims of trafficking for generations. Today, many Tamang girls are aware of the “work” they will have to do when they go to Bombay. With the innate optimism of youth, they think that they can some day return with wealth. Sindupalchowk, Nepal.

Fallen Angels: Sex Workers of South Asia

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ENDLESS DOKOS
Tamang women carry loads of stones in Sindupalchowk district, central Nepal.
Across the Himalayas, women perform two thirds of the fieldwork and manual
labor. Male brokers and returnee Madams, often once trafficked themselves, find
little difficulty recruiting in these regions.
Sindupalchowk district, Central Nepal.

Tamang girls have been victims of trafficking for generations. Today, many Tamang girls are aware of the “work” they will have to do when they go to Bombay. With the innate optimism of youth, they think that they can some day return with wealth. Sindupalchowk, Nepal.

DESTINATION MUMBAI: FALKLAND ROAD
The brothel district of Kamathipura began in the 17th century by British authorities to
satisfy the carnal demand of Her Majesty’s troops. Soon Chinese, Anglo-Indian,
French and other “white” women stocked flourishing bordellos on a street once
known to natives as “Safed Galli, or “white alley.” Nepali women from regions of
Sindupalchowk began arriving after World War II, increasing to trafficked women
from throughout the country by the 1980’s. A hierarchy of pimps, brothel owners,
organized criminals; police and politicians share the profits of this criminally
controlled sex industry.
Kamathipura, Mumbai, India.

WAITING FOR CLIENTS
Playing with a baby, looking in the mirror, Nepali teen sex workers and a madam
wait for client’s midday on Falkland Road. A thriving center of the flesh trade
catering mostly to migrant workers and a destination of thousands of trafficked
children and women. “In this place, we take care of each other. If a girl is sick or
needs any kind of help, everybody contributes. We are all in the same boat. We have
no mothers or fathers or family. We only have each other,” says Jyoti, a fifteen-yearold
Nepali sex worker.
Falkland Road, Kamathipura, Mumbai, India,

RED-LIGHT AREA
Prostitutes wait for clients in a narrow lane, "middle-class" red light district of Bow Bazaar area in north Calcutta.
Calcutta, India.

PREPARATION
Business begins about 4 p.m. in the Mumbai brothels. Divya, Bishakha and Geetanjali prepare for the evening.
Kamathipura, Mumbai, India.

DEVADASIS
Business begins about 4 p.m. in the Mumbai brothels. Divya, Bishakha and
Geetanjali prepare for the evening.
Kamathipura, Mumbai, India.

GEETANJALI
Mumbai sex worker Geetanjali relaxes in the afternoon before work.
Kamathipura, Mumbai, India.

WOMEN OF WELCOME BROTHEL
Conditions for prostitutes are marginally better in some brothels, such as the
‘welcome brothels’ of Mumbai, which serve middle-class clients. Here, women are
allowed some time for recreation, and are sometimes permitted to leave the brothels
to get medical care of visit their families, if they have one. Mumbai sex workers relax
in the afternoon before work
Mumbai, India.

Tamang girls have been victims of trafficking for generations. Today, many Tamang girls are aware of the “work” they will have to do when they go to Bombay. With the innate optimism of youth, they think that they can some day return with wealth. Sindupalchowk, Nepal.

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