Reusing Old Machines & Escaping Kolkata Sex Trade

U • Nature • Infotainment • 2025

Director: Sannuta Raghu

Leaving sex work for textile recycling, revamping old industrial machinery instead of building new, and products from banana waste in Tamil Nadu.

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