MEOW MEOW- SRINATH RAO, RESHMA KULKARNI- PATHARE / म्याव म्याव- श्रीनाथ राव, रेश्मा कुलकर्णी- पाठारे

CALL HER AN INFORMANT, SLUM QUEEN, SAVVY BUSINESSWOMAN, OR DOTING GRANDMOTHER — BUT DON’T CALL SHASHIKALA ‘BABY’ PATANKAR A DRUG DEALER…ON MARCH 9, 2015, MUMBAI POLICE ARRESTED A CONSTABLE WITH SUSPECTED MEPHEDRONE. HIS PARTNER BABY PATANKAR, ONCE A POLICE INFORMANT, SOON DUBBED THE CITY’S ‘DRUG QUEEN’. THIS GRIPPING BOOK TRACES BABY’S METEORIC RISE IN MUMBAI’S DRUG WORLD, THE EXPLOSIVE SPREAD OF ‘MEOW MEOW’ ACROSS THE CITY, AND THE FALL OF A WOMAN WHO CLAIMED SHE WAS ALWAYS INNOCENT. FAST-PACED AND SHOCKING, THIS IS THE UNTOLD STORY OF MUMBAI’S MURKY NARCOTICS TRADE AND THE WOMAN AT THE HEART OF IT ALL.