S. Hussain Zaidi talks about sharing his pages with dons

One of the most celebrated crime writers of India, S. Hussain Zaidi, known for his books like 'Dongri to Dubai: Six Decades of the Mumbai Mafia', 'Black Friday', 'The Mafia Queens of India' and 'Dangerous Minds' regaled the audience at the 44th Sharjah International Book Fair (SIBF) on Sunday evening. Widely respected for his authenticity, saturated with lots of research work, Zaidi has been instrumental in introducing the crime genre to the young Indian audience in contemporary times.

- Raghib Hassan, staff Reporter

Starting his professional career as an investigative crime journalist, he has worked with many leading newspapers of India and had created a name for himself right in the very early days of his career. Talking about his journey, he said that “I was a young journalist. When I started writing about crime for Indian Express newspaper, in only two or three years of my career, I got an offer to write ‘Black Friday - and then Penguin published my book. Meanwhile, filmmaker Anurag Kashyap directed the movie. So all I can say everything happened very quickly. I still don’t know how all this happened!”