Publications

Journal Article

Whose Property Is This? Exploring Dynamics Between Property Relations, Housing Precarity, And Working Conditions In Pune's Red-Light District, India

By Sutapa Majumdar for Contemporary South Asia (2025)

Journal Article

When Hyper-criminalization Falls Afoul of the Constitution: The Need to Rethink the Trafficking in Persons (Prevention, Care and Rehabilitation) Bill 2021

By Prabha Kotiswaran and Shardha Rajam for The Indian Law Review (2023)

Blog Post

Buddhadev Karmaskar: A Step Towards Decriminalisation of Sex Work?

By Prabha Kotiswaran and Shardha Rajam for The P39A Criminal Law Blog (2022)

News Coverage

SC Order Grants Dignity To Sex Work But It Is Far From Being Decriminalised

BehanBox (2022)

Op-Ed

Violating Freedoms and Criminalising Labour in Proposed Law on Trafficking

By Shardha Rajam and Prabha Kotiswaran for The India Forum (2021)

Op-Ed

India’s New Trafficking Bill Fails to Protect Survivors Financially

By Shardha Rajam for Open Democracy: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery (2021)

Journal Article

“No Single Hand Can Produce Claps”: A Feminist Evaluation of Customers’ Liability for Availing Sexual Services under Indian Law

By Prabha Kotiswaran for GNLU Law & Society Review (2021)

Journal Article

The Sexual Politics of Anti-Trafficking Discourse

By Prabha Kotiswaran for Feminist Legal Studies (2021)

Journal Article

Theorizing the Continuities Between Marriage and Sex Work in the Experience of Female Sex Workers in Pune, Maharashtra

Shakthi Nataraj and Sutapa Majumdar Social Sciences (2021)

Op-Ed

Journal Article

Has the Dial Moved on the Indian Sex Work Debate?

By Prabha Kotiswaran for Economic and Political Weekly (2019)