My Days in the Underworld: Rise of the Bangalore Mafia

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My Days in the Underworld: Rise of the Bangalore Mafia
AuthorAgni Sreedhar
CountryIndia
LanguageEnglish
Set inBangalore
Published2013
PublisherTranquebar Press

My Days in the Underworld: Rise of the Bangalore Mafia is an autobiographical book written by Agni Sreedhar. Before becoming a writer, film maker and journalist he was an underworld don. He wanted to enter the

Kannada language for his tabloid Agni, which he later translated into English under the title My Days in the Underworld-Rise of Bangalore Mafia with the help of Prathiba Nandakumar and V.G. Jaideep. The book was first published in 2013 by Tranquebar Press.[1][2][3][4][5][6] The author says the book "also works as the story of the city".[2]

Story

In the introduction to the book, the author writes that most of the people have a distorted idea of the underworld, so he wanted to narrate the real crime world of Bangalore. The book is divided into five parts, and each part has multiple chapters. The book begins with the author's arrival in Bangalore in the summer of 1974 to get admitted in a college for higher education. Then he goes on narrating how he met different people and how he turned into an underworld don. The narration is presented from the perspective of the top political leaders of his time who ruled in the state and the other crime world dons who controlled the city, such as Dawood Ibrahim, Chhota Rajan, Sharad Shetty, Kotwal Ramchandra, Jayaraj and Muthappa Rai.[1]

Reviews

Writing for the

Hindu, Muralidhara Khajane says: "The book throws light on notorious gangsters. In fact this is the first book that presents the history of Bangalore’s underworld, detailing the lives of dreaded dons, who ruled Bangalore underworld...."[2]

Award

This book won its author the

Sahitya Academy Award.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b Sreedhar 2013, p. Review.
  2. ^ a b c d Khajane, Muralidhara (11 December 2013). "The gangs of Bangalore". The Hindu. Retrieved 9 February 2016.
  3. ^ "Cops, gangsters co-exist: Agni Sreedhar". Deccan Chronicle. 20 January 2016. Retrieved 9 February 2016.
  4. ^ "The Man Who Saw Too Much". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 9 March 2014. Retrieved 9 February 2016.
  5. ^ "How an underworld don became a crusading journalist". Yahoo News. Retrieved 9 February 2016.
  6. ^ "Insider's journey into Bangalore's dark alleys". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 10 April 2015. Retrieved 9 February 2016.

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