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Riya: Beneath the City Lights.

By day, Riya is just another face in Kolkata call girls endless crowd — a soft-eyed woman in her late twenties who blends into the rhythm of the city like she was born from its dust and diesel. Her long black hair is usually tied back, her clothes simple, her steps quiet. To the world, she’s a receptionist at a “private agency” in Park Street — vague enough to discourage questions. But as night drapes over the city, Riya becomes someone else, someone bolder, sculpted by necessity and years of learning how to survive in plain sight.

Riya was born in a small village near Bardhaman, the daughter of a schoolteacher and a seamstress. She once dreamed of becoming a journalist — curious, sharp, always asking questions. But dreams, she learned early, are expensive. When her father died suddenly, and the hospital bills drowned their small family in debt, she came to Kolkata at 19 to work. First at a textile shop, then at a beauty parlor. Then, when she was desperate and alone, through a friend who spoke in careful whispers — she entered the world of escort work.

She tells herself it’s just a job. And in many ways, it is. Her evenings are booked through encrypted messages and trusted intermediaries. She’s selective, cautious, never takes unnecessary risks. Some clients want companionship more than anything else — someone to talk to, to listen. Others want to pretend, to play roles that make them feel powerful or tender. Riya becomes whoever they need, even if only for a few hours. She’s learned to separate her soul from her body when needed — a quiet detachment she wears like perfume.

But that’s not all she is.

In her small rented flat in Gariahat, Riya writes poetry in a battered notebook, its pages soft from handling. She reads the newspaper every morning, still believing stories can change the world. She sends money back to her mother each month without fail. On Sundays, she drinks tea on her balcony and watches the city stir — noisy, brilliant, broken — and wonders if one day she’ll leave this life behind.

Riya doesn’t pity herself. She has agency, and she knows it. But she also knows the price of silence, the cost of judgement, and the value of small freedoms. She lives in the space between two names, two selves, two cities: the one outside, pulsing with life and noise — and the one within, quiet, dreaming, waiting.

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