`A city that never sleeps’, is how Mumbaikers are fond of describing their city. However for the past 2 years its night-life has had to continue without its dance bars.
Conservative authorities claimed that the bars corrupted young men, encouraged disorder and bred crime. Some seventy-five thousand young women dancers all over the state of Maharashtra lost their livelihood overnight.
The legality of the ban is presently being considered by India's Supreme Court. And, as Sunita Thakur has discovered, it was a hotly discussed topic in the recent municiple elections
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