Power, crime, survival: The women who define Mafia Queens of India

The book opens with Mr Zaidi's journey to meet a mysterious figure who people call Akka, once a key aide to one of Mumbai's mob bosses Varadarajan Mudaliar

Mafia Queens of India

by S Hussain Zaidi with Velly Thevar

Published by 

Simon & Schuster

214 pages ₹499

  From the co-author of Mafia Queens of Mumbai  comes a new anthology on women who “ruled rackets, outsmarted dons and bent entire systems to their will.” Mafia Queens of India expands the geographical scope of the previous book, but follows similar beats, taking readers from one audacious story to another. 

Some of the stories in Mafia Queens of Mumbai inspired film adaptations, such as Gangubai Kathiawadi, directed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali. Mafia Queens of India, too, seems poised for the screen. Written