A stone’s throw away from the mosque lies the Chawri Bazar metro station, one of the capital’s deepest metro stations. Ascending to the surface – past scrubbed grey tiles and gleaming escalators into a world of Mughal ephemera – is not unlike time travel.
“The women in the Bordellos during the Mughal Empire were repositories of etiquette and refinement. Their patrons used to send their sons to them to learn the art of speech. You can compare them to the grooming classes people run today
“The randis as they were known owned several mansions and were as rich
as the landed aristocracy of the day. Firdaus jaan was so beautiful that
noblemen had to take prior appointments to meet her,”
In the early 1990s, they were branded as fallen women and were relocated to Garstin Bastion road, near Ajmeri Gate which was then considered the outskirts of the city. It was there that gradually the difference between nautch girls and prostitutes started fading.
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Walking Down The Memory Lane. Had My Experience Of Bordello To Brothel
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