Around 186 BCE, a former slave turned courtesan named Hispala Faecenia fell in love with a young upper-middle class Roman man named Publius Aebutius. Then she learned his mother and stepfather planned ...
The novel unfolds as a dual narrative, moving between a Hindu woman Rukmini’s present-day life and a courtesan, Munni Bai’s world of kothas, mehfils, and poetic devotion. The Courtesan, Her Lover and ...
They were called naachne-gaanewali with derision, the tawaifs, whose place in Indian society and contribution to the performing arts are gradually being recognised. The stage show O Gaanewali, by ...
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