Beautiful thing
Subtitle: inside the secret world of Bombay's dance bars
By: Sonia Faleiro
Publisher: Black Cat; Distributed by Publishers Group West; Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York; [Berkeley, Calif.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 225
ISBN-13: 9780802170927
Subjects: Women dancers; Journalists; Sex-oriented businesses; Social conditions; Bars (Drinking establishments); Biography; Women
Description: Offers first-hand insight into Bombay's sex industry and traces the author's experiences with a charismatic teenage exotic dancer whose independence was challenged by an ambitious politician's campaign of false morality.
Notes: Reprint. Orginally published: New Delhi : Hamish Hamilton, 2010. 9780670084050
Table of contents: title: pt. I. January 2005. Challenge me. Any man, any time; title: Manohar wanted me to start modelling; he said I was bootiful; title: A bar dancer's game is to rob, to fool a kustomer; title: My mother is fat, and very, very simple; title: I want a good break, yaar. No cut-piece, sidey role for me; title: To be held, even in the arms of a thief, is worth something; title: I too love you, Janu!; title: I'm going to skin your flesh and throw it to the dogs!; title: The luckiest girl in the world; title: If I fall, who will accept my outstretched hand?; title: I sell watermelons. Watermelons and watches; title: pt. II. September 2005. Now that you're unemployed, how do you feel?; title: Everyone drinks! Everyone beats!; title: If anything happens, run like Sita should have run from Ravan!; title: They showed me. They showed me all night; title: Move on. Stay away. Leave me alone; title: Once these randis come upstairs, their chamri is mine; title: Tell me, do you see it?