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I Am a Tawaif’s Son: Growing up in Mumbai’s Brothels
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I Am a Tawaif’s Son: Growing up in Mumbai’s Brothels

I grew up amid the sounds of thumris, ghazals, the heady scents of mogra and whiskey in the kothas near Mumbai’s Kennedy Bridge. My earliest memory is of my mother fighting a drunken man, who was calling her a “randi”.
Posted by Manish Gaekwad March 20, 2016

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