Dancing queens: Transgenders raise the bar in Mumbai's dance circuit
Smita Deshmukh • 9 years agoThe Maharashtra government's Dance Bar Regulation Bill is doing nothing to protect the security of the women, as well as the growing number of transgenders in the business
After 10-year hiatus, dance bars set to reopen in Mumbai
Fp Archives • 9 years agoThe Supreme Court ordered the state to issue licences for dance bars in Mumbai from 15 March, on condition that certain rules are adhered to.
Maharashtra govt to ban dancing even in five star hotels
Fp Staff • 12 years agoAccording to a report in the CNN-IBN has indicated that the Maharashtra government could impose a blanket ban on dance bars.
Can railings, registers in Mumbai's dance bars make them safer for women?
Fp Staff • 12 years agoWhile the Maharashtra government was in a hurry to purge the state of its moral inadequacies and banned dance bars, it had brushed aside what could have been a fair middle path to curb crime and yet let the dance girls retain their livelihoods.