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When Mumbai, India's film and business capital, shut down all its 'dance bars', there was much debate on the merits and demerits of the decision. In Nepal, another Asian location infamous for its dance bars, women's rights activists are fighting for the rights of the dancers.
"Eventually, we would like that (the shutting down of these bars) to happen here (in Kathmandu) too, but first we need a massive degree of awareness, networking and coordination," says Arpana Shrestha, a Project Officer with Maiti Nepal, a prominent NGO. Maiti works to spread awareness among 'bar girls' - women employed in the small and medium-sized bars and restaurants in Nepal, many of which have the unsavory reputation of having sex on the menu as well.
Broadly speaking, there are three kinds of small and medium restaurants in Kathmandu: the actual restaurants, cabin restaurants and dance bars.
The cabin restaurants are the most dangerous for women employees, says Shrestha. When a customer walks into a dimly-lit hall partitioned into tiny cubicles and calls for a waitress, the worst form of sexual exploitation is on the cards. The cabin restaurants are often raided by police, who take away customers and waitresses in various degrees of undress.
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