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Brutal Truth About India's Red-Light Areas

An unfiltered conversation with Raj Shamani on what GB Road actually looks like up close — not the cliché, not the headline, not the rescue narrative. The work as it is.

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Gitanjali Babbar · with Raj Shamani

A Day in the Life of a Sex Worker

Gitanjali walks through one ordinary day on GB Road — the rhythms, the small dignities, the things that don't make it into press features. A clip from her conversation on the Raj Shamani show.

Gitanjali Babbar is empowering Delhi's sex workers and their children

A profile of the founder — fifteen years in, on what it actually takes to keep showing up on GB Road, and why the work is the women themselves.

India's sex workers fight for survival amid coronavirus lockdown

How Kat-Katha became a lifeline during 2020 — rations, rents, and crisis-line support across the brothels of GB Road when the trade vanished overnight.

Coverage of sex workers on GB Road during lockdown

On-the-ground reportage from Delhi's GB Road during the 2020 lockdown — the invisible women whose livelihoods disappeared first.

How one woman's love is transforming Delhi's brothels

A long-form essay on Gitanjali, on listening before fixing, and on what fourteen years of weekly presence on GB Road has rebuilt.

Kat-Katha: turning brothels into classrooms

A short film by News18 on the Bridge School — the first classroom inside a GB Road brothel, and the children it has carried forward.

A trip down taboo town

The Sunday Standard's account of walking GB Road with the Kat-Katha team — what the women said, what the children drew, what the visitor expected to find versus what they found.

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