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...Salem saga is just one of the dramatic stories playing out in the press and on websites. Also in the news is Chota Shakeel, Bombay's current boss of bosses, whom the local police claim they have on 71 tapes of bugged calls. Among Shakeel's alleged phone buddies are actors, directors and producers. The tapes still must have their authenticity established, yet they add credence to the popular theory that in India, which makes more films per year than any other nation, the Mob controls most of the movie business...
...Both Chota Shakeel and Abu Salem could end up in Indian jails. But the bhais won't ease their grip on Bollywood. They'll keep watching. They always...
...rupees - Second bill from Cecil (August 2 -September 7). The Cecil is an island of Paradise in a political hell. On a cool white verandah the rulers of the British Raj sit sipping chota pegs and singing for the "kipnagar" (waiter) and talking about India as if it were something very far and remote and inconsequential in their personal lives...
...when dozens of people were being shot down all through Delhi and rain and blood ran half and half in the dirty gutters I came back to the Cecil at 9 o'clock emotionally exhausted. And there on the porch they all were sipping their gimlets and chota pegs-and they asked me what was happening in town and was it serious...
...until the last the outcome had been in doubt. For days correspondents sat in the sweltering Imperial Hotel drinking chota pegs* or nursing the local form of dysentery called Delhi belly, laying bets on Sir Stafford's efforts as though they were a horse race...