Guns, Glamour & Girl Bosses
5/3/202611 min
She’s dressed in designer labels at a high-profile party. She runs a beauty parlour in northeast Delhi. She has a pistol in one hand and a social media following in the other. Meet India’s new women gangsters — educated, visible, and deeply embedded in the country’s most feared criminal networks. From Rajasthan to Delhi to gang bosses operating out of Portugal, this is a story about crime, glamour, broken homes, and a society in rapid transition. ET Deep Dive, based on Shantanu Nandan Sharma’s ground report, goes inside the world they’ve built. Anirban Chowdhury narrates.
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[intro music] Hello and welcome to ET Deep Dive, where we tell you stories that don't neatly fit into a headline in audio. [upbeat music] Today's episode is based on Shantanu Nandan Sharma's report on India's newest gangsters: educated, visible, socially connected women. [upbeat music] It's Sunday the 3rd of May. I'm Anirban Chaudhuri. This is the Morning Brief. [upbeat music] Picture this, a young woman from Jhunjhunu in Rajasthan, an AK47 tattooed on her hand like a declaration of intent. In another frame, a feared operative armed not just with connections to a gang syndicate, but with a bachelor's degree in computer applications, nudging a fellow gangster towards books as much as bullets. These are not imagined characters lifted from the pages of a crime thriller. These are real women, real names, real arrests. The woman with the AK47 tattoo is