 "Rakesh Maria, Let Me Say It Now")
For the characters and plots it throws up, blurring the boundaries between fiction and non-fiction, the Mumbai crime world is almost a publishing genre in itself. So, when one of the city’s most decorated police officers writes a memoir, you’d think it would be worth a read. But the celebrity status ex-IPS officer Rakesh Maria enjoys also means that his career is well documented. That leaves his memoir struggling to justify a title such as Let Me Say It Now.
Although the book contains interesting, less known or occasionally shocking revelations, the reader is likely to demand better returns for labouring
