num_pages: 232
description: 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.
language: None
title: Beautiful Thing: Inside the Secret World of Bombay's Dance Bars
publisher: Penguin Books India