Anjali Arondekar

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Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society · Sex Work in Colonial India · 1 May 2026 podcast

And I think that's why the unions are so successful now.

They understand.

And there was no push to respectability.

I mean, I wrote about this in my book, which is the first thing you want is, you know, when you have sex workers, the kind of liberal conservative model is, oh, if we reform them, we give them education.

Yes, and we marry them, they'll be great.

But one of the big debates in our community in the 1920s in the archives is, why should we advocate for marriage?

My father wrote about this.

He was a student organizer and he was more queer than I was.

My father wrote this beautiful piece when he was 17 years old, which is in Marathi, which is my first language, which basically says, why are you telling us to get married?

The men who come to visit our mothers are all married.

So clearly marriage is not the solution.

Right.

So, but it is, but you know, that's the kind of practicality, but it's also pleasure.

I mean, these archives, one of the reasons why I love talking about this and you can see in my excitement is it's also full of joy.

They are kalavans.

Kala is a word that means art.

right?

They think about sexuality as a form of intervention.

Surely as a form of exploitation, there's plenty of that.

And I could tell you so many stories of caste humiliation, but those are familiar stories.

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