6.4 Damyanti Biswas: The Murky World Of Mumbai's Dance Bars
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Imagine a crowded railway station where an attractive stranger catches your eye. A train passes by and\\u2013 they\\u2019re gone!
In this episode, Michelle sits down with Damyanti Biswas to discuss her book \\u2018The Blue Bar\\u2019, as it unpacks the disappearance of a woman dressed in a blue sequined saree from a crowded Mumbai railway station and how, 13 years later, a trail of murders begin with nothing to show for it- except blue sequins. They discuss how Damyanti sat in railway stations watching trains as part of her research, how she obsessively read about bar dancers, and why The Blue Bar is a Mumbai novel, through and through.\\xa0
In this exciting partnership series with Jaico Publishing House, we are featuring fascinating new authors every month, writers that captivate the audience and bring forth a revolutionary perspective to Indian literature.
What secrets and terrible crimes lie behind the glamor of Bollywood, dance bars, and mangroves in Mumbai?\\xa0
Tune in to find out!
Books and authors mentioned in this episode:
Beautiful Thing: Inside the Secret World of Bombay\\u2019s Dance Bars - Sonia Faleiro
The Last Courtesan - Manish Gaekwad
Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found - Suketu Mehta
Shantaram - Gregory David Roberts
Sacred Games - Vikram Chandra
The Secret of More - Tejaswini Apte-Rahm
Manjhi\\u2019s Mayhem - Tanuj Solanki
Movies mentioned in this episode:
Chandni Bar - Madhur Bhandarkar (Director)
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