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Journalist Sonia Faleiro sets out to uncover a story and encounters Leela, a charismatic bar dancer in Bombay’s hidden nightlife. Leela opens a window onto the city's dance bars—glamorous yet brutal places where women navigate love, sex, and violence amid patrons, gangsters, police, and pimps. The narrative follows Leela’s struggle for independence as a politician’s campaign of false morality drives the bars to closure, testing her resilience. The book traces Sonia’s investigative journey into the intimate, dark heart of Bombay’s sex industry, offering a vivid portrait of social conditions and women’s lives in India.
First publish date: 2010
Genre: Biography & Autobiography/Biography
Authors: Sonia Faleiro
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