Click to play videoMumbai: Eight days of incessant downpour brought the bustling city to a standstill and adversely affected business enterprises.
However, it was not just the small shops and big firms that lost money.
Among the worst affected were the city's commercial sex workers (CSWs) who could not manage to find customers during the downpour, forcing them to stay off the streets.
Pooja Gopal, a CSW since five years, has been under a house arrest of sorts and is ruing about the rains and the bad business.
"During the rains our losses our huge. We're worried since the last eight days. Our kids are starving. Who's helping us? Certainly not the government," Pooja says.
Most CSWs in Mumbai say that a few more days of heavy rains and they'll be on the streets, not for business but due to the lack of it.
Pooja's companion Shanti scouts the streets every night for at least one hour in vain. There’s no sign of any customers on the rain-hit Mumbai streets. “I would have easily earned Rs 4000," Shanti says.
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Mumbai's pimps are also feeling the heat and there have been scuffles among the various groups of CSWs.
In the last five days, I have incurred losses between Rs 2500 and 3000 . So troubles have increased. It's a hand-to-mouth existence," a pimp, Hussain Khan, says.
It may be raining, but the financial drought for the likes of Pooja and Shanti continues.
Desperate for buyers they move around the streets, only get curious glances from the passers-by.
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