Sunset on India’s Sin City

Author: Venkatesh Raghavan

  • ₹ 199.00

Language : English

Binding : Paperback

ISBN 10 : 819530463X

ISBN 13 : 9788195304639

Category : Fiction

Publisher : ECP+Blackspine


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Mumbai which had the dual reputation of the Manchester of the east as well as sin City of India, partly lost its sheen after the indefinite textile strike of the eighties. It continued to be famed as India's sin City for over seven decades post independence, with ballroom dancing and strip tease bars being replaced by dance bars gyrating to Bollywood numbers, and service ladies night joints. The sprawling red light area around Kamatipura continues to stay the star attraction to visitors from across the country, albeit on a lesser scale.Sun set on sin City tries to capture the different moods and phases of how night life, sleaze, and other entertainment avenues underwent transformation in Mumbai once famed as Bombay. In parts, it's about hedonism and it also discusses the travails and anguishes of the women catering to sleaze requirements on the face of mounting challenges.
Venkatesh Raghavan, a known name in the Mumbai crime circles has managed to capture the different ways employed by the narcotic drugs traders across India to corrupt the youth of the country and make it a surplus demand market for the suppliers from the bordering countries. His investigations that commenced in the early nineties, following an intense human trail that catered to pushers and users across economic strata, throws light on how severe the crisis will turn in the forthcoming years. Venkatesh Raghavan who happens to be a dab hand in the exploration of Bombay night life and has spent over three decades doing investigative stories, chose this topic to highlight what people from different walks get faced with as sin City looks to be fading. He captures the essence of what Mumbai that was once Bombay offers to the patrons of indulgences. Raghavan began with investigative stories for the eveninger Free Press Bulletin way back in 1985. Venkatesh Raghavan had his previous book launch, Operation Drug Mafia from the same publishing stables.

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