SMUGGLING, GUN-RUNNING, DRUGS, TERRORISM FOR MANY DECADES, MUMBAI HAS LIVED UNDER THE SHADOW OF THE UNDERWORLD. DAWOOD IBRAHIM, KARIM LALA, VARADARA- JAN MUDALIAR: THESE ARE NAMES THAT ANY INDIAN WOULD RECOGNISE. ANALYSED IN PRINT, IMMORTALISED ON FILM, THEIR LIVES, THEIR GANGS, THEIR BUSINESSES ARE OUT THERE FOR ANYONE WHO WANTS THE INFORMATION. BUT THERE HAVE BEEN WOMEN, TOO, WHO HAVE BEEN PART OF THIS MURKY SIDE OF THE CITY, WALKING ALONG SIDE, SOMETIMES LEADING AND MANIPULATING MEN IN THE UNDERWORLD TO RUN THEIR OWN ILLEGAL BUSINESSES. HERE, FOR THE FIRST TIME, CRIME JOURNAL- ISTS S. HUSSAIN ZAIDI AND JANE BORGES EXPLORE THE LIVES OF SOME OF THESE WOMEN, AND HOW, IN COLD BLOOD, THEY WERE ABLE TO MAKE THEIR WAY UP IN WHAT WAS CERTAINLY A MAN S WORLD. FROM KAMATHIPURA TO DONGRI, FROM ASSASSINS TO MOLLS, THIS IS A COLLECTION THAT TELLS THE STORIES OF WOMEN WHO HAVE BECOME LEGEND IN MUMBAI S STREETS, LANES AND BACK-ALLEYS. ABSORBINGLY TOLD, IMPECCABLY RESEARCHED, MAFIA QUEENS OF MUMBAI REVEALS A SIDE OF MUMBAI S UNDERWORLD THAT HAS NEVER BEEN SEEN BEFORE...दाऊद इब्राहिम, करीम लाला, हाजी मस्तान यांसारख्या मुंबईतील माफियांवर नियतकालिकं, वृत्तपत्रं अशा माध्यमांमधून अभ्यासपूर्ण लिहिलं गेलं आहे. चित्रपटांमध्ये त्यांच्या व्यक्तिरेखाही रंगवण्यात आल्या आहेत. त्यामुळे त्यांच्या जीवनाचे तपशी