Edited by Ruchira Gupta, the book brings together twenty-one stories about trafficked and prostituted women by some of India’s most celebrated writers —Amrita Pritam, Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay, Indira Goswami, Ismat Chughtai, J. P. Das, Kamala Das, Kamleshwar, Krishan Chander, Munshi Premchand, Nabendu Ghosh, Qurratulain Hyder, Saadat Hasan Manto and Siddique Alam, among others.
An unprecedented anthology for its subject, as well as for the range of authors and translators who are part of it, River of Flesh and Other Stories offers a harsh indictment of this practice of human slavery, too often justified and occasionally glorified as the “world’s oldest profession.”
About the editor:
Ruchira Gupta is a writer, feminist campaigner, professor at New York University and founder of the anti-sex-trafficking organization, Apne Aap Women Worldwide. She won the Clinton Global Citizen award in 2009, the Sera Bangali Award in 2012 and an Emmy for outstanding investigative journalism in 1996. She has helped more than twenty thousand girls and women in India exit prostitution systems. She has also edited As If Women Matter, an anthology of Gloria Steinem’s essays, and written manuals on human trafficking for the UN Office for Drugs and Crime.
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