Den indiske filminstruktør Gautam Singh har længe været fascineret af de håndskrevne magasiner, som udgives og læses på gaderne i Indien. En dag faldt han over Jugnu – et magasin udgivet af sexarbejderne i et af landets største bordeller. Det kom der en film ud af. Se filmen på nedenstående link.
Historien er hentet på Al Jazeera
Jugnu is a 32-page monthly magazine that has been written and published by the sex workers of the Chaturbhuj-sthan brothel in Bihar, near the border with Nepal, for the past 10 years.
Home to about 10,000 women and children, the whole area – named after the Chaturbhuj-sthan temple, which is located inside – is essentially one large brothel. Historians believe it was first established during the Moghul era. Prostitution has become a family tradition there – passed down from generation to generation.
The magazine had been set up by a group of sex workers led by one girl – Naseema. Born into Chaturbhuj-sthan, Naseema was abandoned by her mother and raised by a woman she calls her ‘grandmother’. Although not actually related to her, this woman used the money she earned as a prostitute to raise Naseema and send her to school. Naseema became the first girl in the brothel’s 300-or-so-year history to receive an education.
And she is the maincharacter in the documentary shown on Al Jazeera and published on their website.
