Anjali Arondekar

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496 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 1 May

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I mean, India is like any good bureaucracy.

If you know how to beat it, you can get away with anything.

And we thank the British for that.

But if you get caught in it, then you are, you know, so if you go to any part of India, for example, there are open red light districts, right?

Kamathipura in Bombay and Lal Bazaar, the place that I was telling you about that was established in the 19th century,

there are different versions of it that extend.

So all across India, and there are wonderful films that have been made, right, about these sex workers who openly talk.

And anytime you have a union, it can't be criminalized, right?

Think about it.

If I say, you know, you gotta respect my labor,

But there are always police hovering around, right?

So it's sort of in between.

The state is not interested in enforcing or saying they are not for or against.

But on the other hand, in carceral logics, as we like to say, the logic of policing is always hovering around.

But sex worker unions are everywhere.

And one of the most beautiful things about sex worker unions is that they are committed to prophylactics.

They are committed to education.

They are out and about.

They are intergenerational.

And there is a lot of focus on age because there is a lot of sex trafficking.

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