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A fascinating exhibition reveals the moral disorder that dictates the lives of women in India

women in India are traditionally divided into two categories: those born in the "good" families, and those who are not.

Beautiful Thing

, the incursion light Sonia Faleiro research in dance bars in Mumbai (or Bombay, as the author prefers) is both the union of categories and confusion. When Faleiro was researching the book she has lived in the "Manhattan of Mumbai" - the southern part of the city - and certainly the right side of the tracks. Many dancers interviewed women bar poor, uneducated young people who were sold by a relative by blood or raped by one, before fleeing to Bombay to make your own destiny. For a book that is so short, Faleiro manages to pack a lot of: pimps, gangsters, transvestites, police and madams. But the most remarkable quality of my eye is the window that offers much sexual repression that exists in India today, and trouble bourgeois morality that governs it.

Meet Leela, the protagonist of Faleiro: "When you look at my life, I see next to you look at the life of my mother and my mother and sister. To ask permission walking on the road. If my mother talking to a guy who is not your son, brother or cousin, you hear the sound of my father's hand in his face, felt his fists against his chest. But 'I' I was with men? If I do not want to talk I say, "Get lost, hey! And they do. "

Leela is the highest paid dancer owls, one of the dance bars in the way many of Bombay Mira. She has 19 years, with a heart shaped face and a dirty mouth. Challenge whiskey partial real padded bra and kleptomania, Leela no respect for anyone who has "won". Their motto is: "Kustom's pussy." Leela and her best friend, the beautiful Priya, I think, because they make money dancing for men, have something that their mothers never had: freedom. But his curiosity is a kind of emancipation. They dream to be housewives and mothers despite the fact that no honest man I know who have, since they are not "good" girls. Despite all the horrors they suffered in their lives, are always hungry for a happy ending Bollywood. Fantasize that one day a "hensum" a man of "bijniss family" walk in the bar, they fall instantly in love and say, "Your past is the past!"

Faleiro conducted hundreds of interviews over the past five years he spent researching and writing about the world of dance bars, but the main theme of his story is Leela, and rightly . Leela is an ideal character: witty, lively, generous with their memories, and surprisingly lacking in self-pity. Leela is the ability to navigate the hierarchy nuanced sex Faleiro: from silent servers in bars employ only against sex workers and floating prostitutes, massage girls advertise in flyers and posts phone. Among them, the queen dancer bar, because sex sells is not their main occupation, the dance is. The dancer-bar is not a stripper or a dancer. It takes as an index of the court, the charms and caresses in return for money. Although the pole dancer clothing can be revealing any more outrageous than the last of the "fine girl" Bollywood with her cleavage falling and moves obscene. Sex, if it occurs, takes place outside the establishment, discretion of the dancer bar.

shadows Faleiro Leela and friends for birthday parties and trips to the clinic for HIV. She meets with clients and fans, are aware of their secrets and troubles. Even the relationship get advice from them: "Men want more from life." For the most part, is a moderate presence of his own book, recording the life and speaks with great sensitivity, relieve some of the blame for the reader voyeur. From time to time, to judge - the mother of Leela, Apsara, for example: "His idea of ??beauty was a plate bhajjias or a new ball of yarn." Or the owner of owls, "style of thought Shetty stuffed toys and saw nothing strange in a man of his age to drive a car with a chimpanzee and a dancing toy candy colored rear window."

In August 2005, Faleiro writing, there have been complaints of the ban on dance bars in Mumbai. In August 2005, took out a law that prohibits dancing in the background, allowing pubs and bars, forcing 75,000 bar dancers in unemployment or prostitution. The official reason for closing is that places like night owls were "dens of criminals ... are likely to corrupt public morals. "dance in luxury hotels, however, continued without interruption, which implies that the poor are not entitled to the same fantasies as the rich, or the same moral code. The current state of Bombay dance bars is not clear. The ban was repealed by the Supreme Court in 2006 on the grounds that it violates the right dancers to equality and freedom to practice their profession. The decision been challenged by the state government before the Supreme Court, which issued a stay order. Recent news seems to suggest that the bars are back, subject to the rigorous application and license fees. Anyway, the fate of the bar dancers remain dangerous.

Beautiful Thing
is not an easy book to read. This will take you through the dark, disturbing, without offering any real solution to the negotiation of these territories. In a sense, this is the main limitation of non-fiction, which has the power to seduce the truth, but it lacks the ability to help you overcome it. Finally, we are left with the uncomfortable knowledge that when you close the door of this book, you have the freedom to conduct your own life, leaving the characters trapped in the contradictions of their own.

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