A lot is written about sex-workers in fiction and non-fiction. But it is very rare that someone who was actually a sex worker writing about her life. Nalini Jameela is first sex-worker in modern India to write autobiography.
She was born in an Indian joint family in Kerala. Deteriorated financial conditions of her family made her to start working in petty jobs at very young age. She worked as daily labor in mines, then as domestic helper. After the death of her alcoholic husband, to support her two kids and to give Rs. 5 per day to her mother-in-law she was left with no option but to become a sex-worker.
The book talks about her life as sex-worker, as a married woman, conversion to Islam, diseases, life as a beggar, becoming sex worker again and her active participation in Jwalamukhi an organization for the welfare of co-sex-workers.
This book, which brings out other side of modern independent India as it is, is worth reading and a must read. The book is available from Kinige.com
She was born in an Indian joint family in Kerala. Deteriorated financial conditions of her family made her to start working in petty jobs at very young age. She worked as daily labor in mines, then as domestic helper. After the death of her alcoholic husband, to support her two kids and to give Rs. 5 per day to her mother-in-law she was left with no option but to become a sex-worker.
The book talks about her life as sex-worker, as a married woman, conversion to Islam, diseases, life as a beggar, becoming sex worker again and her active participation in Jwalamukhi an organization for the welfare of co-sex-workers.
This book, which brings out other side of modern independent India as it is, is worth reading and a must read. The book is available from Kinige.com
