Listen to the audio version on Spotify Podcasts✅
📌 Sir Vivek Agrawal, a renowned journalist with over three decades of experience in investigative journalism, has been uncovering the truth behind crimes, law, military, terrorism, and economic offenses. With a career spanning multiple dimensions of journalism, he began his journey as a freelance journalist in integrated Madhya Pradesh in 1985, contributing to local and national newspapers.
📰💼 He transitioned to mainstream newspapers in 1992 with Mumbai’s ‘Hamara Mahanagar’ and later joined the national newspaper ‘Jansatta’ in 1993 as a crime reporter, publishing numerous investigative reports on the Mumbai mafia.
📚 A Prolific Author
He has written 32 books on true crime and other serious subjects. Despite the high demand and financial incentives for writing in English, he prioritized writing in Hindi. This commitment led to the inception of true crime writing and book publishing in Hindi literature.
🎖️ Awards and Accolades
His books, ‘Mumbhai’ and ‘Mumbhai Returns’, created a stir. ‘Mumbai’ won the Maharashtra State Hindi Sahitya Akademi Award in 2018.
✒️ He has now expanded his creative horizons, venturing into film and TV scriptwriting and documentary filmmaking.
In this podcast, he exposed the dark reality and secrets of:
✅Conspiracy of #SerialBombBlasts, 1993 (then Bombay)
✅#BabriMasjidDemolition X 1992 Riots
✅Architect of Terror: #TigerMemon
✅Phone calls with #DawoodIbrahim & #ChhotaShakeel
✅Involvement of #D-Company
📍Check this website for more insights into his work in the field of investigative journalism.
https://www.indiacrime.com/
Connect here: https://www.instagram.com/vivekink1/
📌Key Highlights
00:00 – Sir, Dawood Ibrahim speaking
1:35 – Crime Journalist, Mr. Vivek Agrawal
2:30 – Lesson for a fulfilling life
3:25 – What plus point makes a good journalist?
5:10 – Era of Newspapers and first letter to Editor in 1985
7:25 – Army of Guns to Army of Pens
8:30 – Transition into Investigative Journalism
10:00 – Working as a Cartoonist for Newspapers
11:50 – When the dream city Mumbai calls
13:20 – Training as an NCC Cadet and craze for Gunnery
15:40 – Out NCC team was tagged ‘Pandavas’
16:55 – First job offer from a Mumbai Newspaper
18:18 – “I did not want to come to Mumbai because..”
19:30 – ‘Aapla Mahanagar’ & adapting the Mumbai work-life
22:28 – 12th March, 1993 – Bombay Serial Bomb Blasts
23:23 – Their target was ‘Shiv Sena Bhawan’
24:20 – “Bad News is Best News for Journalists”
25:13 – Horrors of Destruction and plan for 30-35 blasts
26:25 – Air India and Bombay Stock Exchange were totally destroyed
27:30 – Who was Tiger Memon – The Architect of 1993 Terror
29:30 – Gold, Silver and Drug Smuggling in 80s
31:00 – They went to Karachi and not Dubai because..
31:35 – Reality of Dawood Ibrahim’s involvement in 1993 blasts
32:37 – Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) prepared a plan to destabilize Indian Government
33:27 – D-Company and Pakistani Smuggler’s connect with Tiger Memon
34:08 – Chhota Shakeel: Right hand man of Dawood Ibrahim
34:59 – Sponsoring 1993 blasts and dark truth behind the RDX consignment
36:15 – Training Terrorists in KARACHI via DUBAI
37:00 – The Bomb Blasts could have been stopped, but..
37:58 – The Scooter belonged to Memon Family
39:11 – RDX, bullets & AK-47 were divided and hidden in Mumbra’s godown
40:50 – Mumbai Police was remarkable in cracking the case
41:11 – Sanjay Dutt also used to attend Arthur Road Jail for his trial
41:50 – Aftermath of Babri Masjid Demolition and 1992 Hindu-Muslim Riots
42:38 – Politically Organised Riots under Political Supremos
43:23 – Mahim Church, Maha-Aarti and burning Muslim Woodstock
45:00 – Mumbai Police had a freehand and made multiple arrests
46:10 – Dawood Ibrahim made a call to Ram Jethmalani with these conditions
47:40 – Why Assassination attempts on Dawood Ibrahim failed?
49:08 – Pakistan is indebted to Dawood for his luxurious lifestyle and security?
50:25 – Phone Calls with Underworld Gangsters
51:30 – Human factor hidden behind the terror and criminal mind
52:15 – Chaakubaaz: Murdered Henchman of Amar Naik Gang
54:05 – One way track for Supari Killers in the world of crime
55:20 – Gangs work like corporations.
56:16 – Karim Lala, Vardarajan Mulaidar and Haji Mastan
57:01 – The X-Factor of Mumbai’s first official don
57:39 – YPR #32 – Coming Soon!
My name is Raj Shrivastava, and I’m an artist! Follow my work here at the links below.
YOUTUBE –https://www.youtube.com/@ThenamezRAJ/featured%E2%81%A0
INSTAGRAM – https://www.instagram.com/thenamezraj/
LINKEDIN – https://www.linkedin.com/in/raj-shrivastava-7656331a0/
#YourPodcastWithRaj is a conversational series that brings out-of-the-box conversations, interesting guests, and quirky topics with a genuine objective of in-moment communication. This unfiltered sharing of knowledge and humane culture shall feed the soul, build the right conscience, and uplift the enigma of the human brain to feel the million creations within.
source