Into The Dark
Right to life just does not mean mere animal existence. Dignity! That is the word needs to be lived in life. Sadly there is a darker reality in the society woven around women. They practice the oldest profession in the world. Sex! Neither a slightest sympathy nor a single good word they get. Into the Dark will give a glimpse of that world. Hope there would be light someday they entitled to have as a fellow human being
A one-room house. The home for two. A twelve-year-old girl is doing homework under the coat while her mother is providing satisfaction to her customer. She has been practicing one of the oldest professions in the world-sex. She has no other option and to make her daughter safe from the clients this is the way it is.
A businessman obsessed to sleep with teenagers once finds his own daughter in the bed. Her own mother introduced the girl in the tread. In fact the businessman has been getting the contracts by using his wife.
A bright student in the English medium boarding school does not know his mother’s flesh pays the fees.
The daytime construction worker turns into a sex worker in evening for the contractor only to make sure that she would get work tomorrow.
A twenty-year-old married lady on the street is the third generations of the same business of hole the goal.
Is it difficult to digest? It was for me too.
It was all started some years back when we were rehearsing a play in which I was performing a character of a boy of the sex worker.. From then on I focused on these mysterious women. I saw them loitering on the streets wearing heavy mismatch make up with disgusting appearance. I wanted to know about them but I have been given advised that it was not a good idea to talk to them for the people from the good family. That was a scary affair to talk to them but I was willing to take a risk if there is any at all. And there was a brand new world for me. During my exploration of that world I came to know that it was all the same emotions here wrapped in the thick layer of darkness and anonymity. They are part of us but for majority unwanted. That is the conflict.
During the conversation with the well known sociologist Mr. Gaurang Jani, it was revealed that 65-70 percent sex workers’ families know about their occupation and sometimes the family members be it husband or mother in law pimping for them.
Now let me tell you that it is all happened in India where sex worker falls in the lowest strata of the society. Everybody here is self proclaimed moralist and project India as a spiritual leader but nobody ready to consider these sex workers as human beings. They feel proud of not having an official red light area but do not want to give a word to the silence over these people.
People considered them cheap and morally corrupted lot and still one could find them almost every cities and villages. For the society they are having easy money and here lies the word called Sexonomy. Police, hotel managers and pimps are there to snatch their share. Any misbehavior and any form of violence again these folks are taken for granted and even police official have a popular belief that there should be no rape in the case of sex workers.
In the name of culture, morality and evils of civilization they never have been accepted as a part of the society. In Indian films they have been portrayed as a symbol of romanticism but the reality is not that romantic. Indian males like to sleep with them but not ready to accept them as a part of the society. It is an underground business where everybody is naked under the cloth but nobody wanted to talk about that. They have been verbally abused by the so-called good people and if have a chance they do not miss to dance. People are there who run away after the business without paying a single buck and even feel no shame in asking to give some money back or reduce the price after the work has done. Even in this situation if the woman tries to get the full money or try to be tough people would speak badly about that woman only. In such an occasion when the quarrel over the payment was going on the surrounding crowd had the show for free and that woman was a tool of the entertainment. A few people asked her about the price and advised her to forget it. Not a single person was advocating that woman and when along with my friends I said that the woman was right the people were shocked and even advised us not to participate but to enjoy it!
In the world of constant abuse, unsafe environment and where self-esteem is on the edge the numbers in this segment is on increase. Down fall of the family is the major reason and here comes the human approach as well. They take good care of their families and love their children like all other mothers. In brief whether one agreed upon the business or not one should remember that they are one of us with all the human emotions. They feel pain, can laugh, give love, take responsibilities and like all other folks they too have a right to be treated as human beings.
A businessman obsessed to sleep with teenagers once finds his own daughter in the bed. Her own mother introduced the girl in the tread. In fact the businessman has been getting the contracts by using his wife.
A bright student in the English medium boarding school does not know his mother’s flesh pays the fees.
The daytime construction worker turns into a sex worker in evening for the contractor only to make sure that she would get work tomorrow.
A twenty-year-old married lady on the street is the third generations of the same business of hole the goal.
Is it difficult to digest? It was for me too.
It was all started some years back when we were rehearsing a play in which I was performing a character of a boy of the sex worker.. From then on I focused on these mysterious women. I saw them loitering on the streets wearing heavy mismatch make up with disgusting appearance. I wanted to know about them but I have been given advised that it was not a good idea to talk to them for the people from the good family. That was a scary affair to talk to them but I was willing to take a risk if there is any at all. And there was a brand new world for me. During my exploration of that world I came to know that it was all the same emotions here wrapped in the thick layer of darkness and anonymity. They are part of us but for majority unwanted. That is the conflict.
During the conversation with the well known sociologist Mr. Gaurang Jani, it was revealed that 65-70 percent sex workers’ families know about their occupation and sometimes the family members be it husband or mother in law pimping for them.
Now let me tell you that it is all happened in India where sex worker falls in the lowest strata of the society. Everybody here is self proclaimed moralist and project India as a spiritual leader but nobody ready to consider these sex workers as human beings. They feel proud of not having an official red light area but do not want to give a word to the silence over these people.
People considered them cheap and morally corrupted lot and still one could find them almost every cities and villages. For the society they are having easy money and here lies the word called Sexonomy. Police, hotel managers and pimps are there to snatch their share. Any misbehavior and any form of violence again these folks are taken for granted and even police official have a popular belief that there should be no rape in the case of sex workers.
In the name of culture, morality and evils of civilization they never have been accepted as a part of the society. In Indian films they have been portrayed as a symbol of romanticism but the reality is not that romantic. Indian males like to sleep with them but not ready to accept them as a part of the society. It is an underground business where everybody is naked under the cloth but nobody wanted to talk about that. They have been verbally abused by the so-called good people and if have a chance they do not miss to dance. People are there who run away after the business without paying a single buck and even feel no shame in asking to give some money back or reduce the price after the work has done. Even in this situation if the woman tries to get the full money or try to be tough people would speak badly about that woman only. In such an occasion when the quarrel over the payment was going on the surrounding crowd had the show for free and that woman was a tool of the entertainment. A few people asked her about the price and advised her to forget it. Not a single person was advocating that woman and when along with my friends I said that the woman was right the people were shocked and even advised us not to participate but to enjoy it!
In the world of constant abuse, unsafe environment and where self-esteem is on the edge the numbers in this segment is on increase. Down fall of the family is the major reason and here comes the human approach as well. They take good care of their families and love their children like all other mothers. In brief whether one agreed upon the business or not one should remember that they are one of us with all the human emotions. They feel pain, can laugh, give love, take responsibilities and like all other folks they too have a right to be treated as human beings.
