Red-light Express

Hyderabad-based ArtLife Events is coming up with a play called ‘Red-Light Batti Express’. It is a social awareness event with a serious message for young girls. A play by daughters of sex workers, it is an attempt to change how human trafficking is perceived. This event is presented by Mumbai based NGO – ‘Kranti’ which empowers girls from Mumbai's red-light areas to become agents of social change. “They currently work with 20 girls, aged 13-23 who are daughters of sex workers and survivors of trafficking.

These girls present their and their mother's real-life stories in the form of theatre. In the past five years, Kranti's girls have become the first girls from India's red-light area to study abroad, receive UN awards for their social justice work, given 25+ TEDx and other speeches around the world, and written, directed and performed their own play in front of 10 Lakh audience in Edinburgh Fringe Festival, UK and USA,” says Tarusha, founder of ArtLife.    

They performed, 10 weeks in the UK at the world's largest performing arts festival, was covered by BBC earlier this year. And ArtLife is bringing them to India for the first time ever, and Hyderabad will host it on January 21st at N Convention.