Ashley Lee

Honour: Confessions of a Mumbai Courtesan is an eye-opening story of resilience

By: Ashley Lee While Honour is a fictional play, the story is all too real for sex workers and their families in Mumbai. The play, presented as part of Diwali in BC, is a five-year project founded by Rohit Chokhani that aims to make Diwali celebrations throughout the province. The message of the play has two main objectives: to erase the stigma around women living in brothels, and to raise money for the rescue and rehabilitation of sex workers who have been enslaved by human traffickers. A percentage of all ticket sales go towards helping to stop human sex trafficking around…

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