The Beauty Game
Anita Anand
Penguin India
205 pages/ Price: Rs 250
Nothing is as representative of changes in urban, middle-class India, as the neighbourhood. The chemist now stocks deodorants and perfumes of a vast, supermarket variety and women no longer hoard their mostly spurious Chanel No. 5 and Charlie for special occasions.
Bridal makeups are no more white pancake masks layered to withstand the video photographer
