Showing results by narrator "Petra Ortiz" in All Categories

In the Shadow of the Red-Light is a hybrid literary work that blurs the boundary between documentary and fiction, cinema and novel, testimony and narrative. Set across the trafficking corridors of South Asia, from poverty-stricken villages in Bangladesh to the brothels of Mumbai, from Nepal’s theatre stage to the brutal sale of virgins in India’s red-light underworld, from Colombo's fragile dreams to Pakistan's underground pornography rings, the novel traces the interwoven fates of women and children lured, sold, and trapped within the global sex trade.

The Moon has a bearing on the tides, on nature as it changes our seasons, and yet we don’t pay it too much attention. It has always been there! But if it has so much power to do all this to our world, then surely it follows that it will have the same influence on us. There is magic with positivity and our true nature's instinct. Have you ever felt too much sometimes you’re happy, energetic, excited, and then other times, out of sorts, tired, wired, and out of sync with yourself and the universe?