‘Killing me will not help you escape. My men will catch you and roast you, because your ticket to martyrdom—the cyanide capsule—is in my hand.’
This is the dialogue between Murugan and NSG Captain Ravindran while the later had a gun pointed at his torso. This is how gripping the story of most infamous gang of assassins is. How they managed to evade arrest and how they were meticulously tracked by the SIT. I have lived this story via newspaper reports but thanks to this book one comes to know the "behind the scenes" or rather "behind the headlines" story that took place. Must read for anyone curious to know what really happened. Well researched with true insights into the working of the bureaucratic laden investigative agencies. The near miss of catching the kingpin alive. Reads like a thriller.


“I knew a man who gave twenty years of his life to a scatterbrained woman, sacrificing everything to her, his friendships, his work, the very respectability of his life and who one evening recognized that he had never loved her. He had been bored, thats all, bored like most people. Hence he had made himself out of whole cloth a life full of complications and drama. Something must happen and that explains most human commitments. Something must happen even loveless slavery, even war or death.”
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“To me bathtubs are the epitome of luxury. Either you have no money to own one or you have no time to use one.”
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“So much for Objective Journalism. Don't bother to look for it here--not under any byline of mine; or anyone else I can think of. With the possible exception of things like box scores, race results, and stock market tabulations, there is no such thing as Objective Journalism. The phrase itself is a pompous contradiction in terms.”
― Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72
― Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72
“The cinema is an invention without any future.”
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