In 2005, journalist Sonia Faleiro began exploring Mumbai’s dance bars, a neon underworld of prostitution, drugs, and organized crime. Her aim was to document a subculture on the brink of ...

Mumbai bar dancers welcome Supreme Court's verdict Baywatch was a bar in Dadar. In 2005, a TV journalist who posed as a customer at this bar near Chitra Cinema said it felt like a film scene.

Namrata is a 40-year-old mother of two and a former Mumbai bar dancer. Now that the Supreme Court has lifted the Maharashtra government’s 2005 ban on that industry, she is considering a comeback.

Mumbai: In a late-night crackdown, police raided two illegal dance bars in Andheri and Sakinaka, where bar girls were found ...

MUMBAI, India — Pasties and a G-string are no good to an Indian erotic dancer. With sari firmly tied, she just flashes some navel, or bares her back, to fire up a bar full of men into a money ...

36 bar dancers were arrested by the Mumbai police from western Mumbai area in raids on two bars for violating the prevailing law. Bar dancing was banned in Maharashtra in August 2005, after the ...

Mumbai: After a ban of two decades on Mumbai's dance bars, the Supreme Court today allowed them to run, staying the operation of Maharashtra Police Act that prohibited dance performances at eating ...

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Mumbai bar dancers go to court to defend their right to work, as for many the only alternative is prostitution; Other items include, an interview with Portuguese Fado singer Dona Rosa; Education ...

Mumbai: Bar dancers, who were abruptly rendered jobless after the Maharashtra government shut down dance bars on August 15, 2005, hailed the Supreme Court verdict permitting conditional re-opening ...

On Saturday night, two dancers of a south Mumbai bar were found hidden in the cavity of a toilet, during a raid. The raid occurred after the police got a tip-off about the Kalpana bar in Grant ...

Mumbai: The Bombay High Court on Monday rapped the State for failing to take action against “delinquent” officers allegedly ...