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Not Just Another Story

Jhimli Mukherjee Pandey

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Description:When the rags-to-riches hit movie Slumdog Millionaire swept the Oscars in 2009, a Kolkatajournalist was tasked with tracking down Lakshmi, a young girl from Sonagachi who hadbeen part of an award-winning documentary about sex workers and their children. When thejournalist finally tracked down the elusive Lakshmi, she was surprised to see how much theyoung girl had changed. Lakshmi, now called Anjali, was a high-class escort—astute, beautifuland ambitious, she had found peace with her place in the world. As the journalist slowly got toknow Lakshmi, she found out more about her mother and grandmother and the circumstancesthat had brought them into the brothels of Kolkata’s red-light district.The poignant chronicle of three generations of sex workers—Saraju, Malati and Lakshmi—takes us from a village in Bangladesh to a refugee camp in India in the years before theBangladesh War to the murky alleys of Sonagachi to the posh Salt Lake area in Kolkata. Atthe heart of this compelling narrative is Lakshmi’s tenacious struggle to lift herself out ofthe squalor and unpredictability of Sonagachi’s brothels to find power and stability in her life.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Not Just Another Story. To get started finding Not Just Another Story, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: When the rags-to-riches hit movie Slumdog Millionaire swept the Oscars in 2009, a Kolkatajournalist was tasked with tracking down Lakshmi, a young girl from Sonagachi who hadbeen part of an award-winning documentary about sex workers and their children. When thejournalist finally tracked down the elusive Lakshmi, she was surprised to see how much theyoung girl had changed. Lakshmi, now called Anjali, was a high-class escort—astute, beautifuland ambitious, she had found peace with her place in the world. As the journalist slowly got toknow Lakshmi, she found out more about her mother and grandmother and the circumstancesthat had brought them into the brothels of Kolkata’s red-light district.The poignant chronicle of three generations of sex workers—Saraju, Malati and Lakshmi—takes us from a village in Bangladesh to a refugee camp in India in the years before theBangladesh War to the murky alleys of Sonagachi to the posh Salt Lake area in Kolkata. Atthe heart of this compelling narrative is Lakshmi’s tenacious struggle to lift herself out ofthe squalor and unpredictability of Sonagachi’s brothels to find power and stability in her life.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Not Just Another Story. To get started finding Not Just Another Story, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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