All that we have told and showed you about Delhi up till now has been the positive and vivid side of the place. We all know there’s no heaven on earth and Delhi’s no different. But I believe that if we have taken up the task of exploring you through the gullies of Delhi, then we should show you all that's there to it. For that I have chosen up the second biggest red light area of the world which is based in the New Delhi region.
G.B. Road as it's infamously known as is a road from Ajmeri Gate to Lahori Gate, parallel to the railway lines. The area has over several hundred multi-story brothels and estimated over 12,000 sex workers. In 1996 the name of the road was officially changed to Swami Shradhanand Marg.
The place is a commercial hub and has shops selling machinery and automobile items on the ground floor. While on the first and second floor of the locality are brothels that function at night, after the shops close.
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| Picture by Dilgrace Kaur |
G.B. Road as it's infamously known as is a road from Ajmeri Gate to Lahori Gate, parallel to the railway lines. The area has over several hundred multi-story brothels and estimated over 12,000 sex workers. In 1996 the name of the road was officially changed to Swami Shradhanand Marg.
The place is a commercial hub and has shops selling machinery and automobile items on the ground floor. While on the first and second floor of the locality are brothels that function at night, after the shops close.
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| Picture by Dilgrace Kaur |
As
you walk through the footpaths of the market during daytime, you’ll see heavy, shabbily
dressed women guarding the stairs that lead the path to the upper floors. “Shaadi
ho gyi tumhaari?”, one of the those ladies asked us as we passed by. Disgusted
by her appearance and the tone in which she was talking, we just ignored her
and kept on walking. On a window of the upper floors, we noticed a group of
women peeking through a wrecked building, dressed in flashy and very bright
coloured clothes. I tried to take out my camera and click their picture, but
then for some reason I didn’t.
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| Picture by Dilgrace Kaur |
The place is regarded
as extremely dangerous at night, as in the past numerous cases of thievery,
snatching and murder have been reported in the area. Simply putting it, crime
is no stranger to the locality.
I titled the
article as ‘Bandishein’ meaning confines, as the word is apt to convey the
shackles that a part of our society is still bound in- shackles of greed and
manacles of inhumanity.
No place on earth is
heaven, and yes Delhi’s no different.
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Dilgrace Kaur
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Dilgrace Kaur is studying Journalism (Hons) at Kamala Nehru College. She is a passionate story teller and loves conveying her ideas through various mediums be it through writing, making videos or in the form of plays. She's an active member of her college's theatre society and does many street plays. Aspiring to be a film maker, this girl loves to travel and click pictures at every opportunity she finds.
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