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

Author: Sonia Faleiro Year: 2010 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Non Fiction Culture: India Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Amazon eBooks.com LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780670084050 9780802170927 0670084050

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. Similar books: Maximum City by Suketu Mehta Capitalism by Arundhati Roy The Karma of Brown Folk by Vijay Prashad The Amazing Book is Not on Fire by Dan Howell The Adventurous Eaters Club by Misha Collins Code Complete by Steve McConnell Destiny of Souls by Michael Newton The Simple Path to Wealth by J. L. Collins Firefly by Joss Whedon Making Faces by Kevyn Aucoin The Way I Heard It by Mike Rowe Refactoring by Martin Fowler We Are the Ship by Kadir Nelson Effective Java by Joshua Bloch Dreyer's English by Benjamin Dreyer The End of Your Life Book Club by Will Schwalbe Shrinkage by Bryan Bishop The Happy Medium by Kim Russo Mastering Regular Expressions by Jeffrey E. F. Friedl Why Indigenous Literatures Matter by Daniel Heath Justice