Stepping Into the Shoes of a Sex Worker
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Stepping Into the Shoes of a Sex Worker

I’ve spent many nights looking at the shiny shadows of women trying to make a living in the city’s alleys. They made me curious, but stepping into their shoes turned out to be a whole different story.
Manto: The Seer Who Knew Every Prostitute and Pimp in Town
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Manto: The Seer Who Knew Every Prostitute and Pimp in Town

Manto’s stories can broadly be divided into two sections: the ones about Partition, and the ones about Mumbai. The latter are the ones I admire the most, when he wrote about the dingy alleys of the city, where prostitutes, pimps, and decent men met, their dreams and desires in tow and humanity intact.