There is no offence in Indian law called prostitution. Even the one law which touches upon this subject - The Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, 1956 does not outrightly criminalise an adult selling sex in private, and the Supreme Court said exactly this in 2022 when it directed police not to take criminal action against consenting adult sex workers.
What the statute actually reaches is the apparatus around it, running a brothel, living off someone else's earnings, soliciting in public, operating within 200 metres of a school or a hospital. So the thing being demanded here mostly exists already.
What does not exist is a regulatory framework, and that is the whole problem, because an industry that is neither banned nor licensed is one where nobody stuck inside it against their will can call the police. A trafficked fifteen year old cannot walk into a thana and name the men holding her without walking into a law that has historically been used to detain her in a protective home.
The only people who benefit from the existing grey zone are those police officials involved in hafta vasooli and organized criminal gangs which are happy to pay them off to look the other way when they traffic kids and unwilling women.
The Indian diaspora is in white collar jobs, with low crime rates, which isn't where racists expect PoC to be. They can't accept that brown ppl can compete n win over them so they cope through lies, dehumanising memes n AI videos and ofc "they are scamming, nepotism" blah blah
The reaction to this, show that people don't want anything to succed. They want a niche thing, that isn't talk about enough. So they complain is not talk enough and someone complain like it is talk too much
It's like a section of Indians have convinced themselves that they are hated because some tourist danced or NRIs had a religious procession. Do they literally not see what internet racists say about Indians? Do u agree with them that you don't shower, in a hot and humid country?
@nongratadesi and at that time , they didn't even have standing army or stone palaces. They were mud brick settlements fighting a tribal war with bronze weapons.
@namitaj68 Lahore was 3rd biggest city in India at that time after Calcutta and Bombay. Karachi was not even in top 10. Also Sindh was not partitioned so it Karachi was bound to go to Pakistan. Punjab and Bengal were partitioned so questions were about Lahore and Calcutta