Ranjana Kumari Condones High End Prostitution

Ranjana Kumari brandishes her belly button

Ranjana Kumari: “Only two to three percent of India’s prostitutes enter the profession willingly. These are the high-class girls, and it is them exercising their democratic rights,” said Ranjana Kumari, director of the Center for Social Research in New Delhi.”

She said this in an article titled (link): New breed of elite prostitutes cater to India’s rich

Her attitude towards high end prostitution stunned me.

Okay, here’s what happens when you get caught while exercising Ranjana Kumari’s kind of “democratic rights”:

As a professional peddler of feminazi ideals she should have been the first one to condemn prostitution — regardless of whether it is being high end or low end prostitution, instead of giving it a sheen of respectability by calling it expressing ones democratic rights.

Here is a hypothetical situation. Would she say this, if her daughter entered this trade at the high end?

Here is an excerpt from this article: “

“NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Zeba, a 23-year-old model and actress says she’s found the perfect job. The money is great, she rubs shoulders with the super rich and her working hours are convenient.

Zeba is one of thousands of high-price call girls servicing India’s nouveau riche and the throng of foreign businessmen drawn to a booming economy.

“If you have a modeling assignment, you have to work hard,” Zeba, who declined to give her full name in order to protect her identity, said in American-accented English.

“But over here, it’s just one hour. You talk to the person for half-an-hour and then the other half-an-hour in bed. You make a lot of money and it’s easy,” added Zeba, who charges 200,000 Indian rupees ($4,600) for an hour’s encounter, of which the escort agency keeps half.

Prostitution is illegal in India. Yet voluntary groups estimate there to be two million sex workers, most of them forced into the trade by crushing poverty. Many suffer from HIV in a country with the world’s third highest HIV caseload.”

Poverty is the worst form of violence that can be inflicted on a person. Millions of young girls and women are forced to enter this trade globally to keep themselves and sometimes their dependents alive. This is the benign face of this trade. The pernicious face is the abduction and trafficking of women by pimps, criminal gangs and organized mobs.

But here is the irony of this situation: Poverty stricken women who ply this trade, are shunned by the public and looked down upon. Their democratic rights against arbitrary arrest and protection from violence, physical and verbal, by pimps, johns, and state agencies, are never enforced. But for the high end ones, who have opportunities and legitimate ways to earn a living, this trade is looked at with salacious attitudes and their lives are portrayed as glamorous and exciting, giving this sad activity a sheen of respectability.

Very unfortunately, Ranjana Kumari takes this tack as well.

This sheen of respectability lasts as long as their identity and their activities remain behind closed doors. Once this comes out, can you imagine the mayhem wreaked on their lives and those of their immediate families?

Ranjana Kumari should be condemning high end prostitution by calling it as what it is: an exploitation of women. Period.

She is not furthering the cause of women or strengthening her already stretched credibility by labeling high end prostitution “expression of democratic rights”. Is this what the empowerment of women means to her?

What would  Delhi Police Commissioner YS Dadwal have to say about Ranjana Kumari’s stance on high end prostitution?

How does she know that only 2-3% of Indian women enter prostitution willingly ? On what data did she base this statement upon? I want to see this data and how and where she compiled this from.

That brings me to my last question. What would Madhu Kishwar have to say about high end prostitution?

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