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A SHORT HISTORY OF BOMBAY (1534 - 2008) - FROM BOM BAHIA TO BOMB BAY
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Issue Dated: December 14, 2008
Tags : Initial Public Offering | Reliance Industry | Cross Maidan | Middle India | anti-capitalist | romantic era | Haji Mastan | Karim Lala | Dawood Ibrahim | Mafia don | jehadi terrorism | Rio de Janeiro | Earth Summit | Ozone layer | Maximum City | plague | Babri Masjid | pogrom | intelligencia | Subhash Ghai | Inter Services Intelligence | Tiger Memon | Chotta Rajan | Nationalist Don | Marathi pride | Me Mumbaikar | Victoria Terminal | Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminal | bloodsuckers | modus operandi | Madrid subway | London Tube blasts | carpetbaggers | moral policing | community profiling | cosmopolitan | torn asunder | purveyors of identity politics | parochialism | bashing up hapless |
Tags : Initial Public Offering | Reliance Industry | Cross Maidan | Middle India | anti-capitalist | romantic era | Haji Mastan | Karim Lala | Dawood Ibrahim | Mafia don | jehadi terrorism | Rio de Janeiro | Earth Summit | Ozone layer | Maximum City | plague | Babri Masjid | pogrom | intelligencia | Subhash Ghai | Inter Services Intelligence | Tiger Memon | Chotta Rajan | Nationalist Don | Marathi pride | Me Mumbaikar | Victoria Terminal | Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminal | bloodsuckers | modus operandi | Madrid subway | London Tube blasts | carpetbaggers | moral policing | community profiling | cosmopolitan | torn asunder | purveyors of identity politics | parochialism | bashing up hapless |
The 'romantic' era of the Bombay Mafia is well and truly over and Haji Mastan and Karim Lala fade into the sunset as a new king emerges. The son of a police constable, Dawood Ibrahim, kills all his rivals in a notorious gang war to emerge as the undisputed Mafia don with extensive links with some corrupt cops and politicians. Dawood currently resides in Karachi and has successfully fused mafia operations with jehadi terrorism. Many in Bombay are convinced that some top politicians are still on his pay roll.
Issue Dated: Feb 5, 2017
