Articles by Anil Awachat

Prostitution in Pune and Bombay A Report Anil Awachat THE Pune Mandai is its biggest vegetable market. Right at the heart of this busy marketplace is Dane Alley, the Prostitute Lane. The street is lined with decrepit old three-storey buildings without any balconies but pierced through with innumerable windows. The windows are illuminated with big white globe-lights or square light-boxes with 'satisfaction' or 'welcome' or 'satiation' written on them. At night the atmosphere is like Diwali. Ail the windows are crammed with women wearing bright clothes. The rooms you can glimpse through the windows are a garish pink or blue or purple. There are narrow stairs leading up, also full of these women, their shiny nylon saris, sequinned blouses, false diamonds in their noses shining in the dark.

December 27. 1975 MEDICINE Doctors in the Dock The medical profession in the country is very much a part of the market economy network, its gaping income disparities and its private-profit motivations. Because of the affluence it assures, a large number of the more successful and ambitious students try to enter the medical profession. Some pay anything between Rs 25,000 and Rs 50,000 for admission to a medical college. Thereafter, as they pursue their profession over some five and a hall years, they become increasingly conscious of their potential status in society. Their teachers are drawn from among the more distinguished practitioners in the city, whose life-style is often lavish. The term-end parties at the teachers' well-appointed homes fitted with many tokens of affluence give the doctors in the making their ideas of what to aim at. During their stay in the medical college such ambitions are reinforced again and again:

October 12, 1974 MAHARASHTRA The Violence of Orderly Change Anil Awachat BABHULGAON is a small village, some six miles away from Latur town in district Osmanabad. On July 18, 1974 four men and a woman were returning to Babhulgaon from Latur, at about 10 in the night The men were brothers and the woman, Mainabai was their sister. They were caste Hindus and belonged to a family of Shinde