In India, sex workers’ children challenge taboos to help the needy

Sandhya Nair’s favourite childhood memory is of listening to bedtime tales from the woman she called Amma – Hindi for mother. She was a transgender sex worker, and Nair’s next-door neighbour. “Every night, while my mother worked, Amma fed me and told me stories until I drifted off into my dreams,” said the 23-year-old, who grew up in Kamathipura, Mumbai’s largest red-light district. Nair said she thought of Kamathipura as safe. Once, when a man spotted her in the brothel and asked how much it…

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