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Dongri Te Dubai (डोंगरी ते दुबई)
मुंबईत ६० वर्षे गुंडांच्या टोळ्या चालवणा-या माफियांचा प्रभाव होता. त्यात हाजी मस्तान, करीम लाला, वरदराजन मुदलियार, छोटा राजन, अबू सालेम होते. पण या सर्वांवर कडी केली ती दाऊदने. या सर्वांच्या तपशीलवार माहिती काढून अभ्यासपूर्वक त्यांच्यावर लिहिलेले पहिले पुस्तक आहे. एका साध्या शाळकरी पोरापासून टोळीच्या दादापर्यंत दाऊदची उत्क्रांती कशी होत गेली, दाऊदने पोलीसांचा उपयोग करून आपल्या प्रतिस्पर्धाना कसे निपटले आणि शेवटी तो मुंबई पोलिसांचा एकमेव सुडकरी कसा बनला याचे वर्णन यात आहे. हे पुस्तक म्हणजे मुंबईतील गुन्हेगारीचा एक इतिहास आहे. पोलीस कॉन्स्टेबलचा मुलगा दाऊद याने पठाणाच्या टोळीला कसे निपटले, पहिली सुपारी कशी दिली गेली व शेवटी दुबईतून दाऊद कसा पळून गेला, याचे थरारक वर्णन पुस्तकात आले आहे.
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Headley and I
For most of his childhood, Rahul Bhatt did not know a father's unconditional love a vacuum that the advent of David Coleman Headley filled for a while. David Headley: the dashing, intriguing Pakistani with one brown eye and a green one, a man who could pass himself off as American quite easily, a charmer of men and women alike. Headley inveigled his way into Rahul's simple world and, in no time, swept him off his feet. It is only when ten men made a mockery of Mumbai in a well-planned act of terrorism, that Rahul realized how close he had come to being a part of the careful plotting and the innumerable recces that Headley carried out. This is a complex tale of human relationships and the deceit therein. It is the story of Rahul Bhatt, an aspiring Bollywood actor, and his encounter with David Coleman Headley, the man who was responsible for a ruthlessly executed carnage, in which 166 people were killed and over 300 injured in the fifty-nine hours that brought Mumbai to heel and shook India. A pulse-racing narrative, told in the voices of Bhatt and Headley, Headley and I traces the months leading up to the horrors of 26/11 and the long months of interrogation that followed.
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Dongri To Dubai
Dongri to Dubai is the first ever attempt to chronicle the history of the Mumbai mafia. It is the story of notorious gangsters like Haji Mastan, Karim Lala, Varadarajan Mudaliar, Chhota Rajan, Abu Salem, but above all, it is the story of a young man who went astray despite having a father in the police force. Dawood Ibrahim was initiated into crime as a pawn in the hands of the Mumbai police and went on to wipe out the competition and eventually became the Mumbai police’s own nemesis. The narrative encompasses several milestones in the history of crime in India, from the rise of the Pathans, formation of the Dawood gang, the first ever supari, mafia’s nefarious role in Bollywood, Dawood’s move to Karachi, and Pakistan’s subsequent alleged role in sheltering one of the most wanted persons in the world. This story is primarily about how a boy from Dongri became a don in Dubai, and captures his bravado, cunningness, focus, ambition, and lust for power in a gripping narrative. The meticulously researched book provides an in-depth and comprehensive account of the mafia’s games of supremacy and internecine warfare.
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Black Friday
On the afternoon of 12 March 1993, a series of explosions cut a swathe through Bombay, spreading terror and destruction over a period of two hours. Starting from the landmark Bombay Stock Exchange in the south of the city during the crowded lunch hour, the blasts extended all the way across to Centaur Hotel, Juhu, in the north. The toll: 257 killed or missing, 713 injured, and a city in shambles. In Black Friday, S. Hussain Zaidi takes us into the heart of the conspiracy and the massive investigation that ensued. The product of four years of meticulous research, the book gives chilling insights into the criminal mind as revealed in Zaidi