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Faleiro, Sonia.
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Sex industry -- India -- Mumbai.
Women dancers -- India -- Mumbai -- Biography.
Women -- India -- Mumbai -- Social conditions.
Journalists -- India -- Biography.
Bars (Drinking establishments) -- India -- Mumbai.
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Beautiful thing : in...
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Beautiful thing : inside the secret world of Bombay's dance bars / Sonia Faleiro.
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Faleiro, Sonia.
New York, NY: Black Cat, [2012]
Subjects
Sex industry -- India -- Mumbai.
Women dancers -- India -- Mumbai -- Biography.
Women -- India -- Mumbai -- Social conditions.
Journalists -- India -- Biography.
Bars (Drinking establishments) -- India -- Mumbai.
ISBN:
9780802170927 (pbk.) :
Description:
225 p. ; 21 cm.
Contents:
January 2005. 'Challenge me. Any man, any time' ; 'Manohar wanted me to start modelling; he said I was bootiful' ; 'A bar dancer's game is to rob, to fool a kustomer; ; 'I want a good break, yaar. No cut-piece, sidey role for me' ; 'To be held, even in the arms of a thief, is worth something' ; 'I too love you, Janu!' ; 'I'm going to skin your flesh and throw it to the dogs!' ; 'The luckiest girl in the world' ; 'If I fall, who will accept my outstretched hand?' ; 'I sell watermelons. Watermelons and watches' -- September 2005. 'Now that you're unemployed, how do you fell?' ; 'Everyone drinks! Everyone beats!' ; 'If anything happens, run like Sita should have run from Ravan!' ; 'They showed me. They showed me all night' ; 'Move on. Stay away. Leave me alone' ; 'Once these randis come upstairs, their chamri is mine' ; 'Tell me, do you see it?'.
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