As a new anthropologist I was feeling many kinds of emotions. I felt nervous and excited at the time because It was my first fieldwork. My first fieldwork was to study prostitution life in Bombay, India. I was thinking about will my fieldwork put an impact on my research life or not? The plane had finally boarded to Bombay, India. As I came out with my friend James, who was also an anthropologist studying the same topic of fieldwork with me was really excited. I in the other hand experienced really hot weather as we came out of the airport. It was crowded with men who were sweating like crazy and women wearing saris that wrapped their bodies and children all over the place without any shoes. I could smell food all over the place. People were selling everything on these crowded streets. This short man came up to me asking " sir, help ki zaroorat hai?" which meant in english "do you need help sir?" as I had studied hindi allready which was the native language of India. I said no and walked past by him trying to get into the car we had rented. As I sat in the car I felt relief. It was cool in the car and it felt good compared to the sticky weather outside. James was excited to be in this new place but I wasn't really all happy. It was hot and crowded but work was work as soon I would leave this fieldwork I would get back to the United States. The whole night I sat there and I coulden't fall asleep due to the mosquitoes all over the house. Finally when I fell asleep at 8:00 in the morning I woke up at 8:00 at night. James had gone out to explore the land of India of where he called "great and exciting." On the other hand I had gotten up took a cold shower and it was now 11:00 at night. I had to start to go to this red light district area where I was assigned my fieldwork. I picked up notebook and headed outside. The car stopped at this crowded place where all I saw was women in heavy makeup standing at poles and by these small houses called chawls. Honestly i didn't feel like getting out of the car. I finally got out of the car and people were staring at me. Well I was a white man in India so that may be the main reason why I got the stares. This man came up to me and asked me " Kaise chaiya larki?" Which meant "how do you want the girl?" My main goal was to go into this big mansion type of house and observe these prostitutes who did mujras which were dances in front of many men. I told the man I wanted to go into the mansion. He took me to this huge mansion as I walking up the stairs I saw rich looking indian men coming out and they looked drunk. As I finally got upstairs I saw this huge room which looked like a palace. It had large white walls and the room was filled with chandelliers and the carpets on the floor were all red. Men were sitting on the floors leaning their bodies on pillows which were gold and decorated. Bottles of alchohol were on the floor and men were eagerly waiting for something. This heavy set woman came out saying to the men " shukriya aap ke aane ka tashreef liye humari rani aana wali hain." which meant thankyou for coming and get comfortable because our princesses are coming." I sat down on these gold pillows as the heavy set lady came to me and said " kaise hai huzoor aap bahot hi haseen hai." which meant "how are you sir your a very beautiful man." I kind of smiled at this direct comment and sat there. Opened up my notebook and was waiting for this so called dances these women had to perform. As I took out my pen loud music started to play in the large room. Men who were sitting there started to look up and as I finally had my pen out I saw this girl walking slowly and started to dance. She was about five feet with big beautiful brown eyes. She wasn't light skinned but she wasn't dark either. She looked fragile and her hair was black as night. Her eyes which were so beautiful looked at me and I said to myself how beautiful. As I started to write about the atmosphere my eyes and my mind coulden't get off this beautiful girl dancing. I witnessed many men taking out money from their coats as these prostitutes came by them. I started to take out my money when that beautiful girl came next to me and looked into my eyes. She wore a red indian dress decorated with gold. She had many gold bangles in her hands and she looked right into my eyes. Her eyes showed sadness but they were still so beautiful. I had taken out my money as I gave it to her and she put it in her blouse. Many men were saying so many things about her like "come here beautiful we will give you whatever you want." I noted all this as the dances had finally finished. Men were drunk and most men took these prostitutes to rooms within the mansion. I was thinking to get this fieldwork I had to act like one of these men and take a prostitute to her room and interview her. I told the heavy set lady who was the pimp of this brothel that I wanted that beautiful girl who I saw that night. The heavy set women called her by her name which was rani. The heavy set lady called "rani, idhar auo beti yeh aap ko chahta hai." which meant "princess come here this man will like to take you." This beautiful girl came up to me slowly and looked into my eyes and made me follow her upstairs. As we finally got to this room which had walls made of gold started to take off her jewelery. i didn't plan to come here and have sexual intercourse with her I had come here to interview her. I told her " I have come here to interview you don't worry I'll pay you money whatever you like but I need this interview from you." She looked at me and started to laugh. I asked her why is she laughing and will she do the interview for me and then this girl called the heavy set lady upstairs. She told the heavy set lady this man which was me didn't want to do nothing with her but just talk to her and pay me. The heavy set lady came up to me and said " sir, you don't find rani beautiful?" I said " no, i just need to interview about her life as a prostitute and I have come from the United States doing study on prostitutes in India. The heavy set lady explained that to the prostitute and the heavy set lady had left. I was alone in the room with this beautiful women. It was so quiet in the room so I had to say something to start this work. I observed her beauty which was in my mind all night as she danced. I started to ask her questions about her occupation and she told me everything very clearly. My work was done because this girl told me about her life very clearly and very descriptive. As I started to close my notebook, the girl said to me 'I can't believe that a man came into this room and didn't touch me." I said to her " this is my work i had no intentions to come here and have sex with you." This girl smiled finally and wow what a breath taking smile and said " it seems like a dream which I never dreamed of." I smiled and I told her thankyou and paid her the money. I finally came home at 3:00 in the morning and lied on my bed. James was up eating indian food and said came up to me and was ranting on about how he enjoyed the food here but I coulden't pay attention to james at all. That girl who was dancing and who I had interviewed was in my mind especially those eyes kept coming across my mind. James said "are you listening to me or im talking to myself?" I told him " yeah you like that food okay so what let me sleep now I will talk to you tomarrow." I went to my room but I coulden't sleep at all. I don't know why that girl kept coming in my mind. It was 7:00 a.m. and I decided to take a shower and head off and actually explore Bombay life. As I got into the car I told the driver to take me back to that mansion where I went last night. I don't know why I was really anxious to go back there and see that beautiful girl again. As I headed into the mansion the heavy set lady sat there counting money in her hands. She looked up at me and asked me "sir, what makes you come again and especially so early theres no dances now till 11:00 at night." I told the heavy set lady " I want to see that girl rani again just talk to her." The heavy set lady smiled and said "wow you must find rani beautiful thats why your here to see her without any purpose." I said "yes you took the words out of my mouth." The heavy set lady told me to go upstairs and I would find rani there. I went upstairs and saw rani as she stood by her door where a man came out of her room. As the man left downstairs, that girl was picking up her jewellery and I entered the room. She looked at me and said " what are you doing here now sir?" I said " I came to actually see you I know this is crazy but I wanted to really see you." She said " Sir, don't you want to sleep you left from here around 2 a.m" I said " no, you were in my mind all day actually i come here for a favor." She asked me what it was and I told her " can you show me bombay?" She looked at me and said "Sir, do you know who I am? I can't go outside this mansion with you I am not an average girl of India my life is here in this mansion and that's all." I told her " rani, i want this beautiful girl to show me bombay i don't care about who you are i want you to only show me." She told me it wasn't really possible for her to leave and I had left her room. I came downstairs to the heavy set women and the heavy set women asked me "sir, the conversation you had with rani will be 60 rupees please." I took out money from my wallet and gave it to her and asked her " can i please take rani out with me for one day?" The heavy set women said " Sir, rani is a prostitute she can only stay here and perform dances and fulfill your fantasies inside this mansion." I said "please I will bring her back don't worry." The heavy set lady said "no, sir that cannot be possible a girl at this mansion had to stay here only." I left the place and went into the car. I headed home and thought about why coulden't she leave this mansion, she was trapped in that mansion like a jail. At 11:00 I headed out to see rani in that mansion. As she came up to dance, she looked into my eyes and danced. Many men called her name and gave her money and even pulled her arms as she danced. I felt a little jealous when these men were touching and calling her names. As the dance finished I left the mansion. As I came home and James was up typing something on his computer and he told me " our fieldwork is almost done are you happy now you can finally leave this place that you call horrible." I told james " I don't want to leave can we stay one more week." James stopped typing and came up to me and said " are you staying YOU want to stay you hated this place why do you want to stay here?" I said " I just do james I really do." James said " we can't man we were paid for only one week and went back to his computer. I had to leave next morning and I was again anxious to see that girl in the mansion. I went to the mansion the next morning before I had to leave for my flight and I went up to rani's room. She looked up and said " again this morning your here your a strange man." I held her hands and told her " Im leaving today in three hours back to the United States." She looked up at me and said " wow your leaving." and I said yeah and as I was leaving she told me "sir, I did fall in love with you." As I heard these beautiful words I left downstairs and from that I coulden't forget about this prostitute called rani.
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