Oct 16 2026 to Oct 16 2026 6:30 p.m.

Price: Free Entry Book/Buy

Where

BLR Design Centre

6th Floor, 46/1, Church St, Haridevpur, Shanthala Nagar, Ashok Nagar Bengaluru, Karnataka 560001

Special Instructions

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Event Description

The Author of the Month Series is designed as a year-long programme at BLR Reads – Library and Archive, strengthening its role as a shared cultural space. Grounded in the idea of reading beyond books, it features monthly author discussions linking literature with themes of the city, history, design, culture, and everyday life. Urban Undesirables: City Transition and Street-Based Sex Work in Bangalore This book presents urban transition experiences over nearly three decades in Bangalore city based on the narratives of the city's street-based sex workers. Sex workers – female, male, and transgender – have been omnipresent in Bangalore's streets for decades. However, despite being blacklisted as 'undesirable' and hazards to the 'ideal public', they have their own unique imaginaries and narratives of the city and its mutations. In mapping out their spatial and social ecosystems and experiences with technology, this book redraws, rewrites, and relooks at Bangalore and its transformations from their perspectives. About the authors: Neethi P. is Associate Professor with Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE) Bangalore. She works on urban labour informality and focuses on women informal workers and various forms and responses from upcoming alternative labour associations. She has published in the areas of garments, electronics, ports, home-based work, street vending, sanitation, mill work, and sex work. Anant Kamath is Associate Professor with the National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS), Bangalore. He works on the sociology of technology in India, with special interest in the subaltern.