An ancient tradition which sees girls dedicated to a lifetime of ‘religious prostitution‘ has become a big business on the streets of southern India. Sarah Harris, who spent two years uncovering the practice, explains what it means to be a devadasi in the twenty-first century.
India’s ‘prostitutes of God’
Tuesday September 21, 2010 RNB's Religion News Blog
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