Rows of hardware and car-part shops line Garstin Bastion Road, with faded signs crammed together above their shutters. By day, the street is one of Old Delhi’s busiest commercial thoroughfare(大道，主干道)s. But as dusk falls(夜幕降临时), GB Road, as it is known locally, transform(转变，变成)s into one of the city’s most notorious(臭名昭著的) red-light districts.
加斯汀·巴斯琴路两旁排列着一排排五金店和汽车配件店，褪色的招牌挤在卷帘门上方。白天，这里是老德里最繁忙的商业大道之一。但夜幕降临后，当地人熟知的GB路便摇身一变，成为该市最臭名昭著的红灯区之一。
An estimated 2,800 sex workers live and work in brothels that occupy the upper floors of the dilapidated buildings, their entrances tucked behind narrow stairways and unmarked doors.(据估计，约有2800名性工作者在破旧建筑上层开设的妓院里生活和工作，这些妓院的入口隐藏在狭窄的楼梯和无标记的门后。) Women sit on plastic stool(凳子)s beneath the stairways, calling out to men passing on the street, while others watch from windows above, their eyes following the movement below before customers are directed upstairs.
据估计，约有2800名性工作者在破旧建筑上层开设的妓院里生活和工作，这些妓院的入口隐藏在狭窄的楼梯和无标记的门后。女人们坐在楼梯下的塑料凳上，向路过的男人吆喝，另一些人则从楼上的窗户向外张望，目光追随着楼下的动静，随后指引顾客上楼。
The challenges the women of GB Road face are numerous and well documented(有充分记录的) – from health risks to abuse, debt to poor sanitation(卫生设施). Now they face a new struggle: India’s controversial(有争议的) electoral reform process. The Election Commission’s special intensive revision, or SIR, is a nationwide exercise in which electoral rolls have shrunk by more than 58 million voters across the 13 states covered in the first two of three main phases.(选举委员会推行的“特别密集修订”（SIR）是一项全国性行动，在前两个主要阶段覆盖的13个邦中，选民名册已缩减了超过5800万选民。) In Delhi, covered in the third phase, the scale of exclusion(排除，排斥) is the highest recorded as a percentage: 4.76 million names – 33% of the city’s previous electorate(全体选民) – do not appear on the city’s draft roll published on 31 August.
GB路女性面临的挑战众多且早有记录——从健康风险到虐待，从债务到恶劣的卫生条件。如今她们又面临一场新的斗争：印度备受争议的选举改革进程。选举委员会推行的“特别密集修订”（SIR）是一项全国性行动，在前两个主要阶段覆盖的13个邦中，选民名册已缩减了超过5800万选民。德里在第三阶段被纳入，其排除比例按百分比计算是已记录的最高值：476万个名字——占该市原有选民的33%——未出现在8月31日发布的该市草拟名册上。