This Highway is Home to MP’s Dalit Sex Workers | The Quint

Who are the Bacchadas? They’re a Dalit community classified as Scheduled Caste, living in India’s heartland state of Madhya Pradesh – and they have a few unique characteristics: there are more women than men. Most women turn to sex work before they even turn 18. And most of them do not consider it a crime – believing that sex work has been passed down in their community, generation after generation... 1:40 Listen to Amala* speak about the story she heard as a child – “Centuries ago, ek koi lady thi... she