Beautiful Thing Portrait of a Bombay Bar Dancer
Australia: Black Inc., 2011. 214pp, paperback. When Sonia Faleiro set out to report on Bombay's bar dancers, she thought she knew what she would find: downtrodden, voiceless women, the helpless victims of predictable poverty. Instead she meets Leela: nineteen, charismatic and fearlessly outspoken, Leela has been dancing in Bombay's bars..... More
