New Delhi, Feb 08: We seek him here, we seek him there, we Indians seek him everywhere; is he in heaven or is he in hell? That elusive Dawood Ibrahim! Arrests are made detainees are released and the don remains untouched. The law enforcement authorities can do nothing even as a caller whispers to a Bollywood heroine: Bhai, baat karenge.
. ‘Bhai’looms large in our collective consciousness. Recent reports say yet another ‘key associate’ of his has been let off in Dubai. Another set of brothers has been allowed to walk free. The charges of murder and bombings are piled high, the authorities vow to track him down, but the ‘D’ company has never been freer of the law.
Dawood has been called our parallel government, he is the villain within, he is the mysterious alter ego of modern India, he exists on the peripheries of the Indian experience, unseen yet ubiquitous.
