Guns, Glamour & Girl Bosses

About this episode

This episode explores the lives of India's new women gangsters who are educated, visible, and involved in criminal networks.

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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

People in this episode

Host: Anirban Chowdhury

Topics covered

• women gangsters
• crime
• glamour
• social media
• criminal networks
• society
• transition

Keywords

• women gangsters
• crime
• Delhi
• social media
• criminal networks
• glamour
• society

Mentioned in this episode

Places: India, northeast Delhi, Rajasthan, Portugal

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