Mafia Queens of Mumbai: Stories of Women from the Ganglands
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S Hussain Zaidi and Jane Borges
Tranquebar Press,
308 pages, R250
Smuggling, gun-running, drugs, terrorism—for many decades, Mumbai has lived under the shadow of the male-dominated underworld. But there have been women too, walking alongside, sometimes leading and manipulating men in the underworld to run their own illegal businesses. Here, for the first time, crime journalists S Hussain Zaidi and Jane Borges explore these women’s lives.
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