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'Banned' world
1. Sonagachi is India's largest 'banned palli' About 10 thousand sex workers live here.
2. According to legend, at one time the owner of this area was a Muslim religious leader named Sanaullah or Sona Gazi. The Gazir Mazar is still in this area.
3. A large part of Sonagachi's sex workers came from Nepal and Bangladesh.
4. The number of Bengali sex workers has decreased gradually in Sonagachi. Nepali, Rajasthani and 'Agrawali' are now in abundance.
5. One night's 'joy' in Sonagachi can cost 300 to 10 thousand taka. There is so much diversity in the remuneration of India, and rare in 'forbidden villages'.
6. Sonagachi's sex workers are mostly known in the profession of their pseudonym.
7. Not all sex workers working in Sonagachha are forced to go down in the profession due to lack of urgency or pressure. Many volunteers came to this profession voluntarily.
8. A project called 'Sonagachi Project' was started in 1992 in order to ensure the use of condoms coming to sex workers.
9. As part of this project, in 1992, an organization called Durbar Mahila Samanan Samity was formed, with the aim of protecting the interests of sex workers. Currently the membership of this organization is about 65 thousand.
10. In 1880, the play 'Puranaliala' was written by the author of 'Anonymous'. The background of the play was Sonagachi. Since then, many literatures have been written in Bangla in the context of Sonagachi.
11. Brysky and Raf Kafman, known to children living in Sonagachi, created the documentary 'Born Into Broths: Calcutta Red Light Kids'. The film won the Oscars in 2004 as the best documentary.
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