Life of S*x Workers: Prostitution, Human Trafficking & Forced S*x | Gitanjali | FO401 Raj Shamani

Raj Shamani Figuring Out episode, in Hindi, in which Raj talks with activist Gitanjali about the realities faced by sex workers and trafficking victims in India. She describes a system built on force - girls as young as ten or twelve beaten, drugged and made to attend dozens of clients a day until their bodies give out - and explains why escape is so rare: their minds are traumatized into staying. She shares the argument she hears from workers on GB Road themselves - that their presence protects other women - and her own counter-data: in her telling, countries where prostitution is illegal see eleven percent crime rates against three percent where it is legal, though she frames legalization as a question, not an answer. She describes watching schoolboys arrive in uniform with two hundred rupees, and maps where trafficked girls come from - West Bengal and Andhra Pradesh topping the list, while she says she has never seen a girl from Jammu and Kashmir or Punjab on GB Road. PARTIAL COVERAGE: this summary highlights the systemic lessons; individual case stories are not covered. These are Gitanjali's own accounts and figures, not independently verified. No sponsor read was named in the episode.