MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - After a 10-year hiatus, dance bars are set to reopen in Mumbai and Maharashtra state with activists warning women and girls could be trafficked and abused in ...

NEW DELHI (AFP) – India's top court on Tuesday overturned a ban on dance bars in the city of Mumbai, allowing hundreds of premises which employed women to dance and entertain customers to reopen. The ...

Dance is a pursuit for rich kids, not people like us,” dancer and choreographer Manish Chauhan recalls his mother’s advice to her starry-eyed teenage son. The dancer who once wore plastic bags on his ...

Six nights a week, Aanam Khan (name changed) dresses in a ghaghra-choli for work. She is a bar girl based in Mumbai's Mira Road suburb, and also works in a bar in Mumbai Central on certain days.

Determined to reveal the India behind the glitz and glamour of its economic boom, Sonia Faleiro spent five years immersed in the brothels of Mumbai - befriending bar dancers, transsexuals and ...