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A fabulous book for true crime lovers like me😄 Hussain Zaidi with his scintillating storytelling, telling us stories about 11 audacious women who wrote their own destiny in the crime world and dominated it like their male counterparts. In the history of the underworld, women have often been written off. Mafia Queens of India brings them back to the center. The journey begins with a woman known only as “Cleopatra.”. Once a trusted figure in Varadarajan Mudaliar’s empire, she lives in obscurity but still carries an aura of authority. Her guarded story unlocks a box of others: a gambling queen who carved her own dominion out of numbers, a drug trafficker who used the most ordinary disguises to fool the police, and a madam from Delhi’s G.B. Road who ran her brothel district with utter ruthlessness. Each tale shows how audacity could be wielded just as effectively by women as by the men who overshadowed them. We travel to the ravines of Chambal where a bandit seeks revenge against those who’d wronged her. In another part of the country, a ponzi scheme dressed in the garb of religion, derails the lives of millions. In colonial Amritsar, a family is hunted by British troops and a woman’s revenge threatens to bring down an empire. These are women who ruled rackets, outsmarted dons, and bent entire systems to their will. With his signature style, Zaidi telling us the truth like action thrillers, an extremely exciting roller coaster. Thank you for this amazing copy @simonandschusterin #Theladylivesinbook #Booksuggestion

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