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Asia biggest red light district gets makeover
Transgender artists have been giving a colourful makeover to the red-light district of Sonagachi in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata.
Said to be Asia’s largest red-light district, Sonagachi, a warren of narrow streets and winding bylanes in central Kolkata, is home to at least 11,000 sex workers.
Working with a Bangalore-based art collective, transgender artists painted murals on some of the buildings as part of a social awareness campaign about sex workers’ rights and also to try to prevent violence against women.