Beautiful Thing: Inside the Secret World of Bombays Dance Bars by Sonia Faleiro

21 in stock

213mm x 134mm x 17mm

Pages: 240

Sonia Faleiro was a reporter in search of a story when she met Leela, a beautiful and charismatic bar dancer with a story to tell. Leela introduced Sonia to the underworld of Bombays dance bars: a world of glamorous women, of fierce love, sex and violence, of customers and gangsters, of police, prostitutes and pimps. When an ambitious politician cashed in on a tide of false morality, and had Bombays dance bars wiped out, Leelas proud independence faced its greatest test. In a city where almost everyone is certain that someone, somewhere, is worse off than them, she fights to survive, and to win. Beautiful Thing, one of the most original works of non-fiction from India in years, is a vivid and intimate portrait of one reporters journey into the dark, pulsating and ultimately damaged soul of Bombay.