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Meergunj or Meerganj is a red-light area in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh. [1] infamous for flesh-trade.Apart from local sex workers, many are trafficked from the Indian states of West Bengal, Bihar, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, and the neighbouring countries of Nepal and Bangladesh.
A red-light district or pleasure district is a part of an urban area where a concentration of prostitution and sex-oriented businesses, such as sex shops, strip clubs, and adult theaters, are found. In most cases, red-light districts are particularly associated with female street prostitution , though in some cities, these areas may coincide ...
Mumbai contains the largest red light district in Asia, in the neighborhood of Kamathipura. Kamathipura is estimated to have over five thousand sex workers, who are identified as male, female, and transgender. [2] Of the estimated five thousand sex workers located in Kamathipura the majority are assumed to be victims of sex trafficking. [2]
Red, any of a number of similar colors evoked by light in the wavelength range of 630–740 nm Red light, a traffic light color signifying stop Red light, a color of safelight used in photographic darkrooms
Born into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids is a 2004 Indian-American documentary film about the children of sex workers in Sonagachi, Kolkata's red light district.The widely acclaimed film, written and directed by Zana Briski and Ross Kauffman, won a string of accolades including the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 2005.
The red-light districts of cities such as Mumbai developed at this time. [29] The governments of many Indian princely states had regulated prostitution in India prior to the 1860s. The British Raj enacted the Cantonment Act of 1864 to regulate prostitution in colonial India as a matter of accepting a necessary evil. [ 30 ]
A customer at one red-light darkroom bar stated, "Red is easy on the eyes...It's fiery. It illuminates, but doesn't overwhelm." [ 11 ] Even if the specific color of lighting may not have biologically-wired effects, some specific colors in the present have gradually become associated with specific emotions, a phenomenon known as color symbolism .
Pages in category "Red-light districts in India" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B. Bowbazar;