HAJI MASTAN
How I finally entered a $5 trillion money-making venture
Indrajit hazra talks about how an Allahabad Bank account-holding man-child, at last, felt plugged into the Phiroze Jeejeebhoy Towers on Dalal Street,
All that glitters is not good gold: Inside India's yellow metal smuggling scene
Gold gets smuggled into the country in a hundred ways. A carrier can hide it in their body, stitch it inside their clothing, conceal it in their shoes, jackets or special belts, or simply carry it in their pockets.
Bappi Lahiri: The man who banished discontent with disco
Even his name — from the staid Alokesh Lahiri to the ‘daaknaam’ Bappi, his Bombay nom de guerre emphasising the p’s that the pet name by which he is still called in Bengali does not — is redolent with a rhythm that upends any tradition of treating understatement as a virtue. His music simply enforced the belief, already prevalent but still lacking the confidence, that over-the-top is a taste that one must embrace both to attain as well as to celebrate success in the ‘Only Vimal’ polyester 1980s that was moving away from elite (Nehru) Gandhian cotton aesthetics.
From Jacqueline Fernandez to Mandakini: B-town divas and their love for bad company
Reel turned real for years, as actresses became object of affection of the underworld.
RSS-Infosys controversy: Why do some folks have lingering doubts about virtues of doing honest business?
The RSS’s media head, Ambekar, distanced himself from the Panchajanya write-up that alleged that Infosys may be trying to deliberately destabilise the Indian economy by helping Naxals, leftists, the tukde-tukde gang, and the Italian mafia… right, sorry, I’m told the publication didn’t say anything about the Italian mafia. This time.
Owaisi's AIMIM is making presence felt in Bihar's Kishanganj district
The entry of AIMIM in Seemanchal region, particularly in districts like Kishanganj and Purnea, is proving to be a cause of trouble for both the ruling NDA and the opposition alliance.
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Raut should not have made comment about Indira Gandhi: Pawar
Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut should have refrained from saying that former prime minister Indira Gandhi used to meet yesteryear gangster Karim Lala, NCP chief Sharad Pawar said here on Friday.
Did underworld fund Congress? Devendra Fadnavis on Sanjay Raut's remark over ex-PM Indira Gandhi
"Sanjay Raut has made a major expos about late PM Indira Gandhi. Why was she visiting Mumbai and whether the Congress was funded by the underworld of Mumbai? Was it the beginning of criminalisation of politics?" former Maharashtra CM queried. Was the Congress in need of "muscle power" to win elections in those days? he further asked.
Indira Gandhi used to meet gangster Karim Lala: Sanjay Raut
Recalling days of the underworld in Mumbai, Raut, who was earlier a journalist, said gangsters like Dawood Ibrahim, Chhota Shakeel and Sharad Shetty used to have control over the metropolis and adjoining areas.
Ram Jethmalani (1923-2019): The lawyer who pulled no punches and fought hard for all his clients
Jethmalani would take up high-profile cases that many other prominent lawyers would loath to accept.
A Muslim-Dalit axis going back to Haji Mastan’s shot at redemption
Reaching out to Asaduddin Owaisi’s Majlise-Ittahadul Muslimeen early on and renewing the Dalit-Muslim axis, he has set the stage for a three-cornered contest in the state.
Indira Gandhi's contribution cannot be written off because of Emergency : Shiv Sena
Shiv Sena also said that Indira Gandhi was "pro-democracy" as she called for elections in 1977 after lifting Emergency which she lost.
Smugglers’ creativity goes for gold again
The ingenuity of smugglers deserves a silver screen acknowledgement.
Did Ram Jethmalani breach BCI rules on lawyers' duty towards clients?
He has been a teacher of law to judges, advocates and politicians since he took part in the murder trial against K M Nanavati in 1959.
When Tamil dons like Varadarajan Mudaliar, Haji Mastan ruled Bombay
Haji Mastan was a major player in the smuggling of precious metals in the 1955-75 period and later became a celebrity in Bollywood for film production.
New kid on the block: MIM steps out of Nizamland, enters Maharashtra
Spearheading MIM's Maharashtra foray is Akbaruddin Owaisi, MLA from Chandrayan Gutta, Hyderabad, and a member of the Telangana assembly.
Open up the market for gold imports
High import duties, at 10% now, compared to the earlier level of 2%, have led to a steep fall in gold imports.
Weak rupee makes gold smuggling, bets attractive
Gold prices are rising faster in India than overseas. And this has brought back a profit opportunity, legal, not-quite-legal and illegal.
Mrs Margaret Thatcher gets a biopic, so why not Mrs Sonia Gandhi?
The Margaret Thatcher biopic, to be released soon, is in a long Western tradition of intelligent filmic scrutiny of public figures. Can India do the same? Remember the aborted Sonia biopic?
Ra.One gets a breather from HC, but at considerable cost; Shah Rukh Khan & his company agreed to deposit Rs 1 crore to ensure the movie's release
Just days before Ra.One's planned Diwali release, Shah Rukh Khan got a breather from the Bombay high court.
Underworld moves beyond Mumbai, operates like diversified conglomerates
Today, the underworld operates like a group of large diversified conglomerates with its fingers in scores of businesses from drugs to real estate.
Bollywood laps up regional marketing strategy
Mainstream Indian film industry is making some serious efforts at segmentation based on a regional marketing strategy.
Once Upon a Time in Mumbaai: Movie Review
Once upon a time in Hindi cinema there used to be the writer duo of Salim-Javed who induced drama in every scene merely by their metaphorical dialogues.
Dawood to Atif, ill-famed sons of Azamgarh
Azamgarh residents received another rude reminder about their district’s reputation as an active breeding ground for jihadi terrorism by revelation that Sep 13 serial blasts in Capital too had an Azamgarh connection.
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