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Surekha Kamble covers her nose and mouth in reaction to a bad small in Miraj's redlight district where ives and works as a Devadasi sexworker. Kamble has been a Devadasi sexworker since she was sixteen. Her mother was a Devadasi sexworker and as is tradition, she and her sister too became Devadasis. She is also a peer educator involved in raising awareness in her community about HIV/AIDS as well as other sexually transmitted diseases. Her two daughters, Chandrike and Ropani, are both being educated at a residential school for the children of Devadasis and she has hopes that they will not follow her into the Devadasi lifestyle.

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God's Prostitutes--Investigating India's Devadasi System
Surekha Kamble covers her nose and mouth in reaction to a bad small in Miraj's redlight district where ives and works as a Devadasi sexworker. Kamble has been a Devadasi sexworker since she was sixteen. Her mother was a Devadasi sexworker and as is tradition, she and her sister too became Devadasis. She is also a peer educator involved in raising awareness in her community about HIV/AIDS as well as other sexually transmitted diseases. Her two daughters, Chandrike and Ropani, are both being educated at a residential school for the children of Devadasis and she has hopes that they will not follow her into the Devadasi lifestyle.