{"id":17695,"date":"2020-04-29T15:45:09","date_gmt":"2020-04-29T06:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/apr\/29\/they-are-starving-women-in-indias-sex-industry-struggle-for-survival"},"modified":"2020-04-29T15:45:09","modified_gmt":"2020-04-29T06:45:09","slug":"they-are-starving-women-in-indias-sex-industry-struggle-for-survival-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=17695","title":{"rendered":"\u2018They are starving\u2019: women in India\u2019s sex industry struggle for survival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusion from government Covid-19 relief has left many reliant on private food donations, as fears raised over protection from transmission after lockdown<\/p>\n<p>Rasheeda Bibi has five rupees to her name. A worker in India\u2019s sex industry, she lives in the narrow lanes of Kolkata\u2019s Kalighat red light area with her three children in a room she rents for 620 rupees (\u00a36) a month.<\/p>\n<p>As a thunderstorm rages through the city, Bibi worries about the leaky roof of her small room.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/apr\/29\/they-are-starving-women-in-indias-sex-industry-struggle-for-survival\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusion from government Covid-19 relief has left many reliant on private food donations, as fears raised over protection from transmission after lockdownRasheeda Bibi has five rupees to her name. A worker in India\u2019s sex industry, she lives in the nar&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1069,59,725,62,1353,914,347,958,1331,1332,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-global-development","category-human-trafficking","category-india","category-inequality-and-development","category-infectious-diseases","category-nutrition-and-development","category-poverty","category-prostitution","category-sex-trade","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17695"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17697,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17695\/revisions\/17697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}