|
1
|
The Dancing Girls of Lahore: Selling Love and Saving Dreams in Pakistan's Ancient Pleasure District [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Adobe]
by Louise Brown
|
|
 The dancing girls of Lahore inhabit the Diamond Market in the shadow of a great mosque. The twenty-first century goes on outside the walls of this ancient quarter but scarcely registers within. Though their trade can be described with accuracy as prostitution, the dancing girls have an illustrious history: Beloved by emperors and nawabs, their sophisticated art encompassed the best of Mughal culture. The modern-day Bollywood aesthetic, with its love of gaudy spectacle, music, and dance, is their... more info>>
Category: People
|
2 Reader Ratings:
|
|
|
|
| Great |
Good |
OK |
Poor |
|
