Word: underworld
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...They shouldn't be that hard to find. I still have their Pakistani phone numbers and addresses from 1999. Musharraf has privately told U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell that the non-Pakistanis on India's list would be the likeliest to be extradited. At the moment, the Bombay underworld has gone well and truly underground. At one point Dawood was surrounded at all times by a contingent of state security men who scrutinized every visitor. I remember he was also regarded suspiciously by the local gold smugglers and real-estate mafias, who don't want the newcomers poaching...
...dons of the Bombay underworld are unique in the annals of organized crime: they direct their operations in the city of their origin from outside the country?or "upstairs" as the underworld lingo has it? from the Middle East, Southeast Asia, and, especially, from Pakistan. The most powerful criminal syndicate in India is headed by Shakeel and his godfather, Bombay native Dawood Ibrahim, son of a police constable, who now depend on the tender mercies of the Pakistani government for their continued existence...
...Shakeel and Dawood can't return to Bombay because they bombed the city in 1993. The Bombay underworld did not set off the bombs, which killed 257 people, in a vacuum. It relied on the tacit understanding if not outright support of Bombay's Muslim community, which had recently been traumatized by riots in which hundreds had been burned alive, stabbed, and shot by Hindu street mobs. The blasts reminded the Hindu community that the Muslims were not powerless...
...Afterward, the underworld in Bombay began to enjoy a stature it had not possessed before the riots. Muslim street toughs and hoodlums became newly respectable, as defenders of the community and their faith. After the blasts, many of the plotters went "upstairs." I met some of them in Dubai; they spend their days watching Hindi movies, their nights on mobile phones plotting murder and extortion across the Arabian Sea. They speak with enormous nostalgia about Bombay, and with hatred about their new neighbors?the Arabs do not treat South Asians well, and the Pakistanis are suspicious of their new guests...
...dramatic monologues, Stallings reinterprets and challenges long-held assumptions. Hades, for instance, emerges as a very sympathetic character in the poem devoted to him, and Persephone’s monologue essentially consists of her telling her mother, Demeter, that she actually enjoys the underworld and does not wish to return...