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Lawbreakıng 10

Listening and Language Skills

10.1
C. Listen to a podcast about Hussain Zaidi, a journalist who
reported on the Mumbai mafia, and answer the questions.
1. Why is Mumbai a centre for gangs?

2. When was gang culture in Mumbai at its worst?
3. Why did Hussain Zaidi get involved in reporting about gangs?
4. How did he manage to get in touch with gang members?
5. What were the places that gangs operated from like?
6. How does he describe gang members?
7. What dangers did he encounter?
8. What happened in the late 1990s?

D. Listen again. What do the following extracts refer to in this recording?
1. protection rackets, gold smuggling, drug trafficking and other illegal, money-spinning practices
2. a high-risk strategy
3. a sharply dressed, influential, well connected, individual
4. seedy, dilapidated places in the Mumbai slums
5. a luxurious office with marble floors and expensive furnishings

6. cowardly, desperate people with big egos, who have been shunned by society
7. squads with the power to use lethal force
8. a heinous breach of human rights

E. Discuss the questions in pairs or as a class.
1. Is it useful to report about gangs from the perspective of gang leaders?
2. Why do you think Zaidi decided to report about gangs? Would you be interested in doing so?
3. Do you think the police methods to clean up Mumbai’s streets were acceptable?

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