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On 12 January 1925, twenty-five-year-old Abdul Kader Bawla, one of the richest men in colonial Bombay and a corporator in the Bombay Municipal Corporation, was murdered on Malabar Hill while out for an evening drive with his mistress, Mumtaz Begum. The objective of the attack was to abduct Mumtaz, who was saved by the appearance of four Briti...
About the author
Dhaval Kulkarni is a Mumbai-based journalist with around two decades of reporting experience across newspapers like the
Times of India,
Hindustan Times, the
Indian Express,
New Indian Express and
DNA. He writes on a broad range of subjects like governance and politics, caste, identity and social movements, environment and forests, health, infrastructure, heritage, culture and archaeology. His byline and articles have appeared in reputed print and digital platforms like News18.com, The Print,
Economic and Political Weekly (EPW), Loksatta.com,
Chitralekha (Marathi),
The Asian Age,
Deccan Chronicle and the
Free Press Journal. His book,
The Cousins Thackeray:
Uddhav, Raj and the Shadow of Their Senas was published in 2019.
