|
|
Article: Book: Grimeto gloss ; A quickie scans Rubina's dazzling fairytale but forgets its flip side.
- Article from:
- India Today
- Article date:
- August 3, 2009
- Author:
CopyrightCopyright 2009 India Today. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
|
SLUMGIRL DREAMING: MY JOURNEY TO THE STARS by Rubina AliRandom
House IndiaPrice: Rs 195, Pages: 175
There's nothing the French like more than India's poverty. They
idolised Satyajit Ray, mythologised Phoolan Devi and now it's the
turn of poor little Rubina Ali to be eroticised. Perhaps it takes
their mind off a trippy president, a collapsing economy and a
simmering racial crisis. The result is a supposed autobiography by
the nine-year-old Rubina, which chronicles her short life, which in
the breathless purple prose of celebritydom is interpreted as "my
journey to the stars.
But even as the star catcher in you looks for Angelina Jolie
asking for Rubina's autograph on the Oscar red carpet, ...