Crime is juicier than spirituality. Guns are more attractive than roses. And thus at least to me-the stories about the lives of gangsters are much more fascinating to share than that of saints. I felt that crime reporting in India is limited only to the columns of daily newspapers and the stories die shortly after they are published. It is truly rare that a book seeks to preserve such stories for posterity and specifically, for fans like me. As a filmmaker, my need for such stories is even more so. I always felt handicapped and a tad frustrated because there was no way I could dig into the lives or events in the glorious criminal past of the great city of dreams, once called Bombay and now known as Mumbai. This book has to be read with Dongri to Dubai. These two books complement each other. The author is a veteran crime reporter and has covered a wide section of the female mafia, contract killers, and molls of Dons.