Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

Beautiful Thing: Inside the Secret World of Bombay's Dance Bars

Sonia Faleiro

3.65/5 (800 ratings)

Read Now Download Now

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 Bombay’s 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 Bombay’s dance bars wiped out, Leela’s 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 reporter’s journey into the dark, pulsating and ultimately damaged soul of Bombay.

Format:: Hardcover

Pages:: 232 pages

Publication:: 2010

Publisher:: Penguin Books India

Edition:: First Edition, First Printing

Language:

ISBN10:: 0670084050

ISBN13:: 9780670084050

kindle Asin:: B007D5TUIS

Beautiful Thing: Inside the Secret World of Bombay's Dance Bars

Sonia Faleiro

3.65/5 (800 ratings)

Read Download

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 Bombay’s 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 Bombay’s dance bars wiped out, Leela’s 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 reporter’s journey into the dark, pulsating and ultimately damaged soul of Bombay.

Format:: Hardcover

Pages:: 232 pages

Publication:: 2010

Publisher:: Penguin Books India

Edition:: First Edition, First Printing

Language:

ISBN10:: 0670084050

ISBN13:: 9780670084050

kindle Asin:: B007D5TUIS

More Books

Modern Romance

Aziz Ansari

City Adrift : A Short Biography of Bombay

Naresh Fernandes

Em and The Big Hoom

Jerry Pinto

The Book of Emperors: An Illustrated History of the Mughals

Ashwitha Jayakumar

Midnight’s Children

Salman Rushdie

If It’s Monday It Must Be Madurai: A Conducted Tour of India

Srinath Perur

The Widows of Malabar Hill (Perveen Mistry, #1)

Sujata Massey

The Mistress of Bhatia House (Perveen Mistry, #4)

Sujata Massey

Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook

Anthony Bourdain

Bombay Balchao

Jane Borges

Milk Teeth

Amrita Mahale

The Coin

Yasmin Zaher