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In his book, Dongri to Dubai, S Hussain Zaidi describes a scene in which Haji Mastan, the famous mafia don of the seventies, is trying to broker peace between two warring gangs, one led by the Pathans and the other by Dawood Ibrahim. “Dawood snatches the cigarette Mastan is smoking and crushes it in his palms and says, ‘we know how to handle the fire and when to crush it with our bare fingers’,” Mr Zaidi writes. Thus, for the purposes of this book, Dawood Ibrahim is the protagonist, the quintessential Bollywood villain, a suave mafia don, a global terrorist — all rolled into one.

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