Download or read book Veerappan The Untold Story written by Sunaad Raghuram and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigative Journalist Sunaad Raghuram S Meticulously Researched Biographical Account Of Veerappan Follows His Career From Small-Time Poacher To The Most Wanted Man In India. By 1990, Veerappan S Gang Of Sandalwood Smugglers And Ivory Poachers Had Become Such A Menace In The Forests Of Karnataka That The State Government Constituted A Special Task Force To Capture Him. Veerappan Then Turned To An Easier Way Of Making Money: Kidnapping Wealthy, Influential Men For Ransom. The Police Were Woefully Inadept At Second-Guessing His Moves And Even When They Had An Opportunity To Nab Him, They Were Thwarted By Lack Of Political Will And Rivalry Between Tamil Nadu And Karnataka Veerappan S Area Of Operation. His Accomplices And Members Of His Family, Including His Wife, Have Been Arrested, Tortured And Sometimes Killed In Encounters; Rewards Have Been Announced For Any Information That Could Lead To His Capture; And Almost All Means Of Persuasion Have Been Tried, But Veerappan Continues To Elude The Law. Raghuram Examines Veerappan S Relationship With His Wife, His Brothers And Members Of His Gang, And Describes In Detail The Method And Madness Of The Murders And Kidnappings Veerapppan Has Been Accused Of Over The Years. Based On Police Records, Media Reports And Interviews With Almost All Those Who Have Ever Had Anything To Do With Veerappan, Veerappan: The Untold Story Is A Riveting Portrait Of The Man Who Is Alternately Hailed As Messiah And Murderer.
Download or read book Veerappan written by Sunaad Raghuram and published by Ecco. This book was released on 2002-09-17 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Veerappan: poacher, smuggler, killer -- a fugitive who for more than three decades has sustained a crime frenzy as action packed and outlandish as anything Hollywood (or even Bollywood) could conjure. Determined to escape the crushing poverty of his childhood village, Veerappan was lured to a life of crime in his adolescence and eventually amassed a gang with as many as 150 members. He has kidnapped wealthy men, poached precious resources, and viciously ambushed police, killing more than a hundred. He stole such great quantities of explosives from nearby granite operations that the government ordered the industry to shut down. Yet to this day he has eluded capture, despite the government's creation of a special task force, the sole purpose of which is to stop him. The impenetrable Indian jungle provides him with shelter and refuge, while villagers, whether from fear or admiration, protect him from the police, so that year after year he has grown bolder and more power hungry. His most audacious act to date -- the kidnapping of India's biggest film star -- caused nationwide public upheaval and brought the film industry to a halt, while his demands for ransom presented the government with a crippling legal dilemma. Investigative journalist Sunaad Raghuram's meticulously researched report follows Veerappan's violent progression from a small-time poacher to the bloodthirsty criminal who has flouted the entire Indian police force and government for decades. Using the personal testimony of Veerappan's family members and closest associates, Raghuram recounts this outlaw's crimes and examines his personal life as well, including a surprisingly touching first person account of what Veerappan's wife has endured. Veerappan: India's Most Wanted Man details the methods and madness of a man alternately hailed as a messiah and condemned as a murderer.
Download or read book Veerappan written by K. Vijay and published by Rupa Publications. This book was released on 2017 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No other bandit in recent times has captured the public's imagination as much as Koose Muniswamy Veerappan. Be it his trademark moustache, stories of his daring escapades or his ruthless massacre of officers, Veerappan continues to fascinate, even thirteen years after his death. Veerappan: Chasing the Brigand is a lucid and incisive account of the rise and fall of India's most dreaded forest brigand. Chronicled by K. Vijay Kumar, IPS, the man who spearheaded the Tamil Nadu Special Task Force (STF) that planned and executed the dreaded bandit's killing, the book relives the various incidents that shaped Veerappan's life - from his birth in Gopinatham in 1952 to his death in 2004 in a shootout in Padi. It traces his dramatic rise from a small-time poacher and sandalwood smuggler to a brutal fugitive who held three states to ransom for two decades. The ruthless killings and high-profile kidnappings masterminded by Veerappan, including the 108-day ordeal involving Kannada cinema superstar, Dr Rajkumar, are described in fascinating detail. Veerappan: Chasing the Brigand is the most authentic account of the life and times of the dreaded outlaw.
Download or read book Veerappan written by Sunaad Raghuram and published by Viking Adult. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Biographical Account Of The Fugitive Who Has Single-Handedly Held The Indian State To Ransom For More Than A Decade. The Author Follows Veerappan S Career From Small-Time Poacher To The Most Wanted Man In India. He Examines Veerappan'S Relationship With His Wife, His Brothers And Members Of His Gang And Describes In Detail The Method And Madness Of The Murders And Kidnappings Veerappan Has Been Accused Of. Meticulously Researched By An Investigative Journalist. Based On Actual Police Records, Media Reports And Interviews. First-Ever Portrait Of A Man Alternately Hailed As Messiah And Murderer. 16-Page Photo Insert. Born In A Small Village In Karnataka, Veerappan Started His Life Of Crime Under The Tutelage Of Sevi Gounder, A Local Don With Interests In Sandalwood Smuggling And Ivory Poaching. After Sevi Gounder Retired From His Lucrative Profession, Veerappan Became The Unquestioned Leader Of The Gang. His Accomplices And Members Of His Family Including His Wife, Have Been Arrested, Tortured And Sometimes Killed In Encounters; Rewards Have Been Announced For Any Information That Could Lead To His Capture; And Almost All Means Of Persuasion Have Been Tried, But Veerappan Continues To Elude The Law.
Download or read book Byculla to Bangkok written by S. Hussain Zaidi and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-08-16 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The high-stakes game of the underworld has new faces, working for and against Dawood Ibrahim - the shadowy, manipulative figure that pulls the strings. Dawood's own deputy turned arch-rival Chhota Rajan, thug-turned-politician Arun Gawli, Amar (Raavan) Naik and his engineer brother Ashwin Naik, and a host of other characters, big and small, walk the pages of this compelling history of the Maharashtrian mobsters who were once dubbed 'amchi muley', 'our boys', by Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray. Equally fascinating are the stories of the famous - and infamous - policemen and 'encounter specialists' who took the gangs on with great success and not too many scruples. Violence and deceit one expects to read of, but the strength of this book is also its ability to capture the mundane - almost naive - beginnings of what very quickly became the organized crime and brutal vendettas that held Mumbai to ransom through the last decades of the twentieth century. Meticulously researched and thrillingly told by the acknowledged expert on the underworld, this is faster-paced than Dongri to Dubai, and even more chilling in its implications for India and the subcontinent.
Download or read book Dongri to Dubai Six Decades of the Mumbai Mafia written by Hussain Zaidi and published by Roli Books Private Limited. This book was released on 2012-08-10 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dongri to Dubai is the first ever attempt to chronicle the history of the Mumbai mafia. It is the story of notorious gangsters like Haji Mastan, Karim Lala, Varadarajan Mudaliar, Chhota Rajan, Abu Salem, but above all, it is the story of a young man who went astray despite having a father in the police force. Dawood Ibrahim was initiated into crime as a pawn in the hands of the Mumbai police and went on to wipe out the competition and eventually became the Mumbai police’s own nemesis.The narrative encompasses several milestones in the history of crime in India, from the rise of the Pathans, formation of the Dawood gang, the first ever supari, mafia’s nefarious role in Bollywood, Dawood’s move to Karachi, and Pakistan’s subsequent alleged role in sheltering one of the most wanted persons in the world.This story is primarily about how a boy from Dongri became a don in Dubai, and captures his bravado, cunningness, focus, ambition, and lust for power in a gripping narrative. The meticulously researched book provides an in-depth and comprehensive account of the mafia’s games of supremacy and internecine warfare.
Download or read book Veerappan s Prize Catch Rajkumar written by C. Dinakar and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Life And Times Of The Sandalwood Brigand Engagingly Told By The Policeman Who Couldn`T Capture Him.
Download or read book The Making of Goddess Durga in Bengal Art Heritage and the Public written by Samir Kumar Das and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-05-21 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the making of the Goddess Durga both as an art and as part of the intangible heritage of Bengal. As the ‘original site of production’ of unbaked clay idols of the Hindu Goddess Durga and other Gods and Goddesses, Kumartuli remains at the centre of such art and heritage. The art and heritage of Kumartuli have been facing challenges in a rapidly globalizing world that demands constant redefinition of ‘art’ with the invasion of market forces and migration of idol makers. As such, the book includes chapters on the evolution of idols, iconographic transformations, popular culture and how the public is constituted by the production and consumption of the works of art and heritage and finally the continuous shaping and reshaping of urban imaginaries and contestations over public space. It also investigates the caste group of Kumbhakars (Kumars or the idol makers), reflecting on the complex relation between inherited skill and artistry. Further, it explores how the social construction of art as ‘art’ introduces a tangled web of power asymmetries between ‘art’ and ‘craft’, between an ‘artist’ and an ‘artisan’, and between ‘appreciation’ and ‘consumption’, along with their implications for the articulation of market in particular and social relations in general. Since little has been written on this heritage hub beyond popular pamphlets, documents on town planning and travelogues, the book, written by authors from various fields, opens up cross-disciplinary conversations, situating itself at the interface between art history, sociology of aesthetics, politics and government, social history, cultural studies, social anthropology and archaeology. The book is aimed at a wide readership, including students, scholars, town planners, heritage preservationists, lawmakers and readers interested in heritage in general and Kumartuli in particular.
Download or read book Stepping Beyond Khaki written by K Annamalai and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-01-18 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did the rape and murder of a young girl transform a rule-obsessed officer to take on a more humane approach? Why did people start calling him Singham just a few years into his policing career? What is it that made a shy, simple village boy dedicate himself to a lifetime of commitment towards public service? Stepping Beyond Khaki: Revelations of a Real-Life Singham is a tell-all memoir by celebrated former police officer K. Annamalai. With a career spanning a decade in the state of Karnataka, he earned the respect of the people with his humanistic action and his style of leadership focusing on empowering subordinates. Further, Annamalai pitches significant questions that rarely get discussed-are politicians bad? And is politics a place where good people fear to tread? By stepping away from the spotlight and bringing out the real heroes whom he had encountered in his policing journey, this is unlike any other policing memoir. Truthfully told with a dash of idealism, it also prescribes changes that are much needed in politics, policing and in our daily governance mechanisms. It brings out the inherent goodness of the common man and the role the general public play in keeping this democracy functioning.
Download or read book Dr Rajkumar written by Puneeth Rajkumar and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rajkumar, 1929-2006, Kannada film actor and singer.
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Download or read book The Bard of Blood written by Bilal Siddiqi and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2015-03-15 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Researched with the assistance of US and Indian intelligence agents, war correspondents and the crime veteran S. Hussain Zaidi, The Bard of Blood takes you on a thrilling journey from the power corridors of RAW to the war-torn terrain of Balochistan. In Delhi, ex-RAW boss Lieutenant General Sadiq Sheikh is killed by a double agent. Sadiq’s killer is a man who knows too much and is part of a diabolical plot to create what might become the Third World War. In Mumbai, literature professor Kabir Anand is settling down into his new life, when a call from the PMO thrusts him back into the world he is trying hard to forget. A brilliant agent who served under Sadiq Sheikh, Kabir has been forced to leave RAW because of a disastrous mission in Balochistan in 2006 that was undertaken as part of the Indian secret service’s covert support of the Balochi rebels against the Pakistan government. Kabir must now revisit those ghosts, avenge his mentor and face his deadliest enemies—Mullah Omar and the ISI—while racing against time to save his country.
Download or read book Autobiography of a Sex Worker written by Naḷini Jamīla and published by Westland. This book was released on 2007 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sex workers are free in four respects: we don't have to cook for a husband; we don't have to wash his dirty clothes; we don't have to ask for his permission to raise our kids as we deem fit; we don't have to run after a husband claiming rights to his property.? Fiery, outspoken and often wickedly funny, this candid account of one woman's life as a sex worker in Kerala became a bestseller when it was first published in Malayalam. Nalini Jameela, who takes her name from both Hindu and Muslim traditions, worked as a child in the clay mines. She has been a wife, mother, successful business woman and social activist ? as well as a sex worker ? at different stages of her life. This is Nalini Jameela's story, told in her inimitably honest and down- to-earth style, of her search for dignity, empowerment and freedom on her own terms.
Download or read book My Days in the Underworld written by Śrīdhar and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memoirs of the author about the underworld experiences in Bangalore, Karnataka.
Download or read book Sanjay Dutt written by Yasser Usman and published by Juggernaut Books. This book was released on 2018 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IndiaÕs top Bollywood biographer tells the uncensored story of SanjayÕs roller-coaster life Ð from the tragic deaths of both his mother and his first wife to the time he smuggled heroin into the US and from the painful rehab he had to go through to his curious phone calls to gangster Chhota Shakeel.
Download or read book A History of Kerala written by Krishnat P. Padmanabha Menon and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Innocent Man written by John Grisham and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2010-03-16 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • LOOK FOR THE NETFLIX ORIGINAL DOCUMENTARY SERIES • “Both an American tragedy and [Grisham’s] strongest legal thriller yet, all the more gripping because it happens to be true.”—Entertainment Weekly John Grisham’s first work of nonfiction: a true crime masterpiece that tells the story of small town justice gone terribly awry. In the Major League draft of 1971, the first player chosen from the state of Oklahoma was Ron Williamson. When he signed with the Oakland A’s, he said goodbye to his hometown of Ada and left to pursue his dreams of big league glory. Six years later he was back, his dreams broken by a bad arm and bad habits. He began to show signs of mental illness. Unable to keep a job, he moved in with his mother and slept twenty hours a day on her sofa. In 1982, a twenty-one-year-old cocktail waitress in Ada named Debra Sue Carter was raped and murdered, and for five years the police could not solve the crime. For reasons that were never clear, they suspected Ron Williamson and his friend Dennis Fritz. The two were finally arrested in 1987 and charged with capital murder. With no physical evidence, the prosecution’s case was built on junk science and the testimony of jailhouse snitches and convicts. Dennis Fritz was found guilty and given a life sentence. Ron Williamson was sent to death row. If you believe that in America you are innocent until proven guilty, this book will shock you. If you believe in the death penalty, this book will disturb you. If you believe the criminal justice system is fair, this book will infuriate you. Don’t miss Framed, John Grisham’s first work of nonfiction since The Innocent Man, co-authored with Centurion Ministries founder Jim McCloskey.
