01761nam a22002057a 4500 20230210115111.0 230208b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9789354891939 AL eng 23 305.4 BHAD Shrayana Bhattacharya 71174 Desperately seeking shah rukh : Indians lonely young women and the search for intimacy and Independence Haryana HarperCollins Publisher 2021 xxii,443p. HB 22x14cm. General ABDI/0651/23 ₹524.00 ₹699.00 25% 16-01-2023 With a new preface for the paperback edition In this pathbreaking work, Shrayana Bhattacharya maps the economic and personal trajectories--the jobs, desires, prayers, love affairs and rivalries--of a diverse group of women. Divided by class but united in fandom, they remain steadfast in their search for intimacy, independence and fun. Embracing Hindi film idol Shah Rukh Khan allows them a small respite from an oppressive culture, a fillip to their fantasies of a friendlier masculinity in Indian men. Most struggle to find the freedom-or income-to follow their favourite actor Bobbing along in this stream of multiple lives for more than a decade-from Manju's boredom in 'rurban' Rampur and Gold's anger at having to compete with Western women for male attention in Delhi's nightclubs, to Zahira's break from domestic abuse in Ahmedabad-Bhattacharya gleans the details on what Indian women think about men, money, movies, beauty, helplessness, agency and love. A most unusual and compelling book on the female gaze, this is the story of how women have experienced post-liberalization India. Women Groups of People 71175 ddc BK 226603 226603 0 0 ddc 0 0 MAENG SACPG SACPG 2023-01-25 Academic Book Distributors 524.00 1 305.4 BHAD PG024203 2023-03-29 00:00:00 2023-02-14 699.00 2023-02-08 BK