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MARCH 1942
VOL. 8 No. 3
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Kili I or: It A It I ' It A O IWTI.I.
7he Tftod Blackmailed
Hooligans are giving the great Muslim community a bad name. Almost every other day we hear of stabbings. skirmishes and riots in some part of India. And almost every time the trouble is traced down to the hooligans.
The hooligans of the Hindu community are equally competent in defying law and order. And it seems that a time will be reached when our huge population of peace-loving citizens will be ruled by a handful of hooligans with knives and sticks.
Cff and on, this very same type cf hooliganism has been practised in our film industry. Years back some Urdu papers in Delhi instituted the racket and black-mailed the Indian film producers into paying them huge amounts as hush money. The producers, being primarily businessmen, went on paying from time to time and now this racket of blackmailing has come to be looked upon as a respectable business in Delhi. Almost every other journal practises it and delights in bragging about the money it managed to knock out from one producer or other.
We are afraid the racket has now come to Bombay. Not that it did not exist before. It did. We had our spongers in some film weeklies, but they had hitherto conducted their nefarious activities more by methods of persuasion than by those of violence.
But now this racket seems to have taken ■ virulent shape.
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