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Bykulla to Bangkok S.Hussain zaidi After the stunning success of Dongari To Dubai this is sequel of Mumbai Underworld 'Saga'(?) i.e. Bykulla to Bankok. As mentioned earlier in the book, dongari (Musafirkhana,Pakmodia Street) was the den of Dawood Inbrahim Kaskar started his journey from Bykulla and finally settled in Dubai (now he is in karachi). Similarly bykulla was thr den for Arun Gawali (daddy), Anil Parab,Amar Naik,Sunil Sawant ( sautya) chota rajan was exception because he hails from Chembur area which is away of Bykulla. Interestingly all them are marathi by origin(specially from Kokan region) and all are the son of mill worker. Mumbai is land of opportunities and economic capital of India. Notoriously it is "Sisily Of Asia". From the decade of 70's, mumbai was ruled parally by these Gangs of Mafia. In this book writer has precisely mentined the rise and fall of Mumbai's Maharashtrian Mobsters Like Arun Gawali , Chota Rajan, Amar & Ashwin Na...

BETWEEN THE LINES : KULDIP NAYAR kukdip Nayar ,veteran journalist From India, who have witnessed the every subtle event since independance. 'Between the Lines' , name itself suggests the incidents, anecdots which were coverted in the folds of time are revealed by the author. There are specially two chapters from the book which are congizable in my opinion. First is about the Bilingualism (a famous debate about the Hindi whether it should be a 'National'? Language or Not). In this chapter ,author specially reports about the happenings took place in the meetings of parliamentary committee, their conclusions ,Language Bill, pressure from north indians for imposer of Hindi as principal language all over the Nation. If we are able to relate this events with current situation we will understand that the Hindi Was never our National language. Second chapter is about the Notorious and humiliating defeat of our nation in Indo- Sino war of 1962. In this Chapter author has u...