RAJAN'S KEDNEYS
Pic.: Chetna Shetty Y esterday, some of my students were excitedly discussing about Chhota Rajan’s arrest in Bali. “Next will be Dawood,” one of them said. The young-men were college kids. “Have you all heard about Haji Mastan, Karim Lala and Varadarajan?” I asked them. “Who are they?” they sounded clueless. “Who ‘were’ they?” I corrected them, not “Who 'are' they?” Then, I told them that the three names were of Mumbai Dons. “These Dons ruled the Mumbai underworld when I was of your age,” I said. “What about Don Vito Corleone?” I further probed my students. “The God Father!” their faces lit up, “He was deadly!” “Is he still deadly?” I enquired. T he kind of Mafia Don Corleone, Haji Mastan and Dawood and their-type represented will, always, be there around. Almost all Dons start off from petty stuff and grow up to become the monsters they are. For example, Chhota Rajan – Rajendra Sadashiv Nikalje – started off with selling ticke...