Flawed truth
Ashok Alexander marshals evidence against the disinformation campaign on Indian sex-work conditions by those who insist that sex work is indistinguishable from sex trafficking.
by Siddharth Dube
Feb 01, 2019
3 minutes
A Stranger Truth: Lessons in Love, Leadership and Courage from India's Sex Workers, by Ashok Alexander, Juggernaut, 2018, 287 pages.
A pillar of society's important but flawed account of people at its margins
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